Hydrophilic Carotenoids: Recent Progress
Carotenoids are substantially hydrophobic antioxidants. Hydrophobicity is this context is rather a disadvantage, because their utilization in medicine as antioxidants or in food chemistry as colorants would require some water dispersibility for their effective uptake or use in many other ways. In th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2012-04-01
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| Series: | Molecules |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/17/5/5003 |