Highlights•Design of functional food should be driven by availability experiments.•Food
components modulate carotenoid bioaccessibility.•Limiting steps must be overcame for …

Highlights•Low carotenoid bioaccessibility/bioavailability: worldwide issue.•Recent articles
on carotenoid bioaccessibility (link structure+ lipids) compiled.•Correlation: microstructural …

Carotenoid pigments are a group of bioactive compounds that are of interest to the food
scientists, nutritionists and food industries due to their positive impact on human health and …

Over the past decades, an enormous body of literature dealing with the natural deposition of
carotenoids in plant-and animal-based foods has accumulated. Prominent examples are the …

To compare the in vitro bioaccessibility of lutein, zeaxanthin, β-cryptoxanthin, lycopene, and
α-and β-carotenes from relevant dietary contributors, a gastrointestinal model was used to …

This article aims to highlight discoveries during the past 5 years regarding aspects of the
bioaccessibility of carotenoids and apo-carotenoids, their uptake by intestinal cells, and their …

Background Carotenoids have gained considerable attention due to their potential positive
impact on health, which heavily depends on their bioavailability (including bioaccessibility …

Carotenoids represent an example of micronutrients for which processing-induced food
structure changes (eg, matrix disruption) strongly influence their bioavailability. The …

Carotenoids are lipophilic pigments in plant foods that are of particular interest as precursors
of vitamin A, a nutrient required for vision, cell differentiation, and the immune system. In …

Carotenoids are an excellent example of where poor understanding of food structure,
complexity of behaviour during digestion, and inter-individual differences in response, lead …