Provitamin A carotenoid content of different cultivars of edible pandanus fruit

Journal of Food Composition and Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 237-247

  Englberger, Lois ^a   Aalbersberg, William ^b   Fitzgerald, Maureen H ^c   Marks, Geoffrey C ^a   Chand, Kishore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cultivars; HPLC; Micronesia; Pacific; Pandanus; Vitamin A deficiency; carotene; carotene

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CAROTENE; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; RETINOL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COLOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PANDANUS;

PANDANUS; PANDANUS TECTORIUS;

EID: 0038370006     PISSN: 08891575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-1575(02)00169-2     Document Type: Article

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