Carotenoids in human nutrition

Pigments in Fruits and Vegetables

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 31-67

  Bowen, Phyllis E ^a   Stacewicz Sapuntzakis, Maria ^b   Diwadkar Navsariwala, Veda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Apocarotenoids; Bioavailability; Brain; Corpus luteum; Lutein; Lycopene; Macula; Vitamin A; carotene

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944526163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2356-4_3     Document Type: Chapter

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