作者: Howard T. Gordon , J. Christopher Bauernfeind , Thomas E. Furia
DOI: 10.1080/10408398209527357
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摘要: The carotenoids are a chemically related group of pigments which occur widely and abundantly in nature. Fruits, vegetables vegetable oils, dairy products, leaves, shrimp, lobster, the plumage exotic birds, all contain carotenoids. Chemically, may be divided into carotenes, made up carbon hydrogen only, oxycarotenoids containing oxygen addition to hydrogen. use carotenoid‐containing plant extracts for coloring foods has been practiced centuries continues today. Advances chemical synthesis resulted complete laboratory beta carotene 1950. Since then commercial several accomplished. In U.S. three these commercially synthesized carotenoids, beta‐carotene, beta‐apo‐8'‐carotenal, canthaxanthin, accepted color additives exempt from certification. These also food other countries. This paper deals with ...