An Investigation of the Carotenoids of Carica papaya

dc.contributor.author	Priyadarshani, A.M.B.
dc.contributor.author	Jansz, E.R.
dc.contributor.author	Peiris, H.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-05-08T05:43:17Z
dc.date.available	2013-05-08T05:43:17Z
dc.date.issued	2006
dc.identifier.citation	Priyadarshani, A.M.B., Jansz, E.R., & Peiris, H. (2006). An Investigation of the Carotenoids of Carica papaya. Vidyodaya Journal of Science, 13, 95-98.	en-US
dc.identifier.uri	http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1045
dc.description.abstract	The carotenoids of yellow-fleshed papaw (Carica papaya), were collected at random from different areas of Kurunegala, a major papaw producing District in Sri Lanka. Results showed that the carotenoids present were phytofluene, scarotene, p-carotene, p-cryptoxanthin, p-cryptoxanthin 5,6-epoxide and an unknown mono epoxy-carotenoid. Carotenoid content varied markedly from sample to sample and the retinol activity equivalent (RAE) and retinol equivalent (RE) ranged from 25 - 156.7 100g'l fresh weight (FW) and 50 - 313.3 100·lg FW respectively. This is 2 to 16 fold, values reported for papaw previously. In-vitro bioaccessibility studies showed values 5.2±0.9Ilg.g'l FW for p-carotene and 6.9±1.l ug.g' fW for p-cryptoxanthin (50.5% and 45.7% extraction respectively).	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Carica papaya	en_US
dc.subject	Carotenoids	en_US
dc.subject	Retinol equivalent	en_US
dc.subject	Retinol activity equivalent,	en_US
dc.subject	In-vitro bio-accessibility	en_US
dc.title	An Investigation of the Carotenoids of Carica papaya	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.date.published	2006