Carotenoids

Carotenoids are natural and versatile secondary metabolites, most of them showing colours that vary from yellow to red. They are widespread among living beings where they are involved in many biological roles reporting beneficial actions. To date, more than 750 carotenoids have been described in nat...

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description Carotenoids are natural and versatile secondary metabolites, most of them showing colours that vary from yellow to red. They are widespread among living beings where they are involved in many biological roles reporting beneficial actions. To date, more than 750 carotenoids have been described in nature. Humans cannot synthesize carotenoids de novo, thus they are mainly obtained through diet. In fact, carotenoids are consistently found in tissues or biological fluids where they play a beneficial decreasing the risk of developing some diseases.During the last half-century, significant advances in carotenoids research have been made. This book highlights new perspectives and applications of carotenoids including characterization and isolation of new compounds (including rare carotenoids), their production at a mid-large scale (involving new innovative approaches), and uses of carotenoids in different biotechnological fields like food science, biomedicine, and cosmetics.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-971232024-04-05T12:30:36Z Carotenoids María Martínez-Espinosa, Rosa Chemistry thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PN Chemistry::PNN Organic chemistry Carotenoids are natural and versatile secondary metabolites, most of them showing colours that vary from yellow to red. They are widespread among living beings where they are involved in many biological roles reporting beneficial actions. To date, more than 750 carotenoids have been described in nature. Humans cannot synthesize carotenoids de novo, thus they are mainly obtained through diet. In fact, carotenoids are consistently found in tissues or biological fluids where they play a beneficial decreasing the risk of developing some diseases.During the last half-century, significant advances in carotenoids research have been made. This book highlights new perspectives and applications of carotenoids including characterization and isolation of new compounds (including rare carotenoids), their production at a mid-large scale (involving new innovative approaches), and uses of carotenoids in different biotechnological fields like food science, biomedicine, and cosmetics. 2023-02-15T14:42:39Z 2023-02-15T14:42:39Z 2022 book ONIX_20230215_9781803554242_162 2631-8261 9781803554242 9781803554235 9781803554259 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/97123 eng Physiology image/jpeg n/a https://www.intechopen.com/books/10836 https://mts.intechopen.com/storage/books/10836/authors_book/authors_book.pdf IntechOpen IntechOpen 10.5772/intechopen.95144 10.5772/intechopen.95144 78a36484-2c0c-47cb-ad67-2b9f5cd4a8f6 9781803554242 9781803554235 9781803554259 IntechOpen 16 156 open access
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Carotenoids
title Carotenoids
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title_full_unstemmed Carotenoids
title_short Carotenoids
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thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PN Chemistry::PNN Organic chemistry
topic_facet Chemistry
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PN Chemistry::PNN Organic chemistry
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