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.date.published | 2006 | |
| 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.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.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 |