Rosehip -- a "new" source of lycopene?
Lycopene, an efficient antioxidant and singlet oxygen quencher, is mainly delivered within the human diet out of tomatoes and tomato products. Processing liberates this carotenoid from complexes with proteins and thus makes it more bioavailable. Rosehip, a wild fruit which is used more often recently to produce mark, jams and juices, showed remarkable contents of lycopene (12.9-35.2 mg/100 g) with an unexpected isomer pattern.
Böhm
Volker
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Institute of Nutrition, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Street 25-29, 07743 Jena, Germany.
Fröhlich
Kati
K
Bitsch
Roland
R
D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism; D001682:Biological Availability; D002338:Carotenoids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D006801:Humans; D000077276:Lycopene; D027826:Rosa / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D013237:Stereoisomerism
D000975:Antioxidants; D002338:Carotenoids; D000077276:Lycopene