Carotenoids and Human Health

Carotenoids and Human Health provides an introduction to food sources and metabolism. Written by experts in their fields and including the most up-to-date information, this volume serves as an in-depth guide to studies that have been performed in humans and observations that have been made in popula...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Tanumihardjo, Sherry A. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2013.
Series:Nutrition and Health
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-203-2
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505 0 # |a Food Sources of Carotenoids -- Carrots of Various Colors -- Carotenoid Metabolism and Enzymology -- Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Biological Systems: Reactions and Regulation by Carotenoids -- Kinetic Studies with Carotenoids -- Carotenoid Bioavailability: Influence of Dietary Lipid and Fiber -- Host Factors that Affect Carotenoid Metabolism -- Host Factors: Gender and Body Composition -- Carotenoid Metabolism and Health in Pregnancy and Lactation -- Carotenoids in Early Life -- Provitamin A Carotenoids and Cancer Prevention -- Lycopene and Cancer -- Lutein and Zeaxanthin and Eye Disease -- Carotenoids and Bone Health -- Provitamin A Carotenoids as a Dietary Source of Vitamin A -- Provitamin A Carotenoids and Immune Function -- Biofortification of Maize with Provitamin-A Carotenoids -- Horticultural Crops as a Source of Carotenoids -- Orange Sweetpotato as a Staple or Complementary Food -- International Efforts to Eradicate Vitamin A Deficiency. 
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