Carotenoid content of commonly consumed herbs and assessment of their Bioaccessibility using an in vitro digestion model

Plant Foods for Human Nutrition

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 164-169

  Daly, Trevor ^a   Jiwan, Marvin A ^a   O'Brien, Nora M ^a   Aherne, S Aisling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bioaccessibility; Carotenoid; Content; Herbs; In vitro digestion; Micelles

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DIGESTION; HUMAN; MICELLE; SPICE;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CAROTENOIDS; DIGESTION; HUMANS; MICELLES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; SPICES;

ANETHUM GRAVEOLENS; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA DRACUNCULUS; CORIANDRUM SATIVUM; MENTHA; OCIMUM; OCIMUM BASILICUM; PETROSELINUM CRISPUM; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS; SALVIA OFFICINALIS;

EID: 77953593677     PISSN: 09219668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11130-010-0167-3     Document Type: Article

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