Extraction of Carotenoids From Plants: A Focus on Carotenoids with Vitamin A Activity
Most dietary vitamin A is obtained from plants, and there are about 50 naturally occurring carotenoid compounds with vitamin A biological activity. These are the so-called provitamin A carotenoids (pVACs), which are broken down in the body to yield retinol, the active form of vitamin A (Yeum and Rus...