Hydrophilic Carotenoids: Recent Progress

Hydrophilic Carotenoids: Recent Progress

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Carotenoids are substantially hydrophobic antioxidants.Hydrophobicity is this context is rather a disadvantage, because Steak their utilization in medicine as antioxidants or in food chemistry as colorants would require some water dispersibility for their effective uptake or use in Longsleeve T-Shirt many other ways.In the past 15 years several attempts were made to synthetize partially hydrophilic carotenoids.This review compiles the recently synthetized hydrophilic carotenoid derivatives.