Lycopene: Chemical and Biological Properties

Food Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 38-45

  Nguyen, Minhthy L ^b   Schwartz, Steven J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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