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| MOREIRA,Lara de Azevedo Sarmet; CARVALHO,Lucia Maria Jaeger de; CARDOSO,Flávio da Silva e Souza Neves; ORTIZ,Gisela Maria Dellamora; FINCO,Fernanda Dias Bartolomeu Abadio; CARVALHO,José Luiz Viana de. |
| Abstract Biofortification is an important technique where the nutritional quality of food crops is enriched through the increase of nutrient content. Provitamin A deficiency is still a public health concern mainly in developing countries. Since beta-carotene is a vitamin A precursor, the increase of this compound in foods through biofortification is a manner to reach people under hidden hunger condition. This work aimed to evaluate the effect of different cooking styles on carotenoids content and antioxidant activity of two different genotypes of biofortified Cucurbita moschata. In the present study, biofortified pumpkins submitted to different cooking conditions were assessed for antioxidant activity by ABTS, DPPH, β-carotene/linoleic acid systems and... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Pumpkin; Antioxidant activity; Carotenoids; Cooking; Biofortification. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-20612020000200302 |
