Open AccessHighly Concentrated Carotenoid‐Containing Emulsions
Author(s) -
Ribeiro H. S.,
Cruz R. C. D.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
engineering in life sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.547
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1618-2863
pISSN - 1618-0240
DOI - 10.1002/elsc.200403367
Subject(s) - lycopene , carotenoid , singlet oxygen , chemistry , homogenization (climate) , quenching (fluorescence) , pigment , oxygen , phytoene , food science , organic chemistry , biology , fluorescence , biodiversity , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics
Lycopene is an apolar, acyclic carotenoid mainly found in tomatoes, tomato products, and lycopene‐carrots, Showing a very high quenching rate of reactive singlet oxygen and being considered as the carotenoid with the strongest antioxidative effect. Carotenoid (lycopene and astaxanthine) containing O/W emulsions with two different disperse phase fractions were produced by high pressure homogenization. Tween ® 20 was used as emulsifier and xanthane as stabilizer.