Carotenoid extraction from tomato by-products

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 542, Issue , 2001, Pages 83-90

  Ruiz, R M ^a   Mangut, V ^a   Gonzalez C ^a   De La Torre, R ^a   Latorre, A ^a  

^a NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Composition; Lycopene; Peel; Pigments; Seed; Solvent; Waste; Yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842546463     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2001.542.7     Document Type: Article

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