Highly Concentrated Carotenoid‐Containing Emulsions

Abstract

Lycopene is an apolar, acyclic carotenoid mainly found in tomatoes, tomato products, and lycopene‐carrots, Showing a very high quenching rate of reactive singlet oxygen and being considered as the carotenoid with the strongest antioxidative effect. Carotenoid (lycopene and astaxanthine) containing O/W emulsions with two different disperse phase fractions were produced by high pressure homogenization. Tween ® 20 was used as emulsifier and xanthane as stabilizer.