carotenoid

How To Use carotenoid In A Sentence

• Hey, protection from free-radical damage all day long -- can't beat that, especially when it comes to one type of cancer: OJ contains something called carotenoid cryptoxanthin, and it's associated with a 15-31 percent reduced lung cancer risk. That's Fit
• The results indicates that the chief chemical components of Jasminum Nudiflorum Linde consist of flavonoids and carotenoids.
• When the team injected barn swallow chicks with foreign antigens, the color of the chicks' gapes dulled as their bodies drew upon all available carotenoids to mount an immune defense.
• Tomatoes provide two valuable phytochemicals: the carotenoid lycopene and the flavonoid quercetin.
• This color reveals the presence of yellow, orange and red pigments known as carotenoids.
• Beta-carotene, lutein, and lycopene comprise the carotenoid antioxidants.
• However, not all albino mutants are caused by carotenoid deficiencies; defects in chlorophyll biosynthesis would also lead to an albino phenotype, though, not in combination with vivipary.
• With different mutants a correlation between the total amount of synthesized carotenoids and photosynthetic oxygen evolution was observed.
• Birds such as goldfinches, orioles, and cardinals owe their colorful plumages to carotenoids.
• Lobsters and crabs, as well as some mollusks, worms, and fish species (salmon and trout, for example), use carotenoid colorants.