Long-term strict raw food diet is associated with favourable plasma β-carotene and low plasma lycopene concentrations in Germans

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1293-1300

  Garcia, Ada L ^a,b   Koebnick, Corinna ^a,c   Dagnelie, Peter C ^d   Strassner, Carola ^a   Elmadfa, Ibrahim ^e   Katz, Norbert ^a   Leitzmann, Claus ^a   Hoffmann, Ingrid ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; Raw food diet; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; FAT; LYCOPENE; RETINOL; ANTIOXIDANT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION RESEARCH; RAW FOOD; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VEGETABLE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME; VEGETARIAN DIET;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOIDS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET, VEGETARIAN; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FRUIT; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME; VEGETABLES; VITAMIN A;

EID: 45549107635     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114507868486     Document Type: Article

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