Review of Extraction and Purification of Carotenoids from Pomace

摘要

Carotenoids are groups of important bioactive compounds, which possess such important physiological active functions as antioxidant, anti-aging, and preventing cancer or cardiovascular disease. In China, it is rich in fruit resources whose processing wastes contain large amount of carotenoids. With the rapid development of modern detection methods, many advanced technologies have been employed to extract and purify them from fruit wastes, effectively utilizing their active compounds. The biological actions and the newest extraction and purification methods of carotenoids from fruit pomace are reviewed in this paper, making contributions to their further study and industrialized developments.