Carotenoid profiling of yams: Clarity, comparisons and diversity

Food Chemistry

Volumn 259, Issue , 2018, Pages 130-138

  Price, Elliott J ^a,b   Bhattacharjee, Ranjana ^c   Lopez Montes, Antonio ^c   Fraser, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Carotenoid profiling; Dioscorea spp.; HPLC; Provitamin A; Yam; carotene

Indexed keywords

FOOD TECHNOLOGY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY;

BIOFORTIFICATION; BREEDING PROGRAM; CAROTENOID COMPOSITION; CAROTENOID PROFILING; DIOSCOREA SPP; HPLC; PROVITAMIN A; SPECIFIC PROFILE;

PIGMENTS;

ALPHA CAROTENE; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID;

ARTICLE; BIOFORTIFICATION; DIOSCOREA CAYENNENSIS; DIOSCOREA ROTUNDATA; DORMANCY; NONHUMAN; PLANT BREEDING; YAM;

EID: 85044582230     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: 18737072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.03.066     Document Type: Article

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