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SUBMITTER: Leja M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3659275 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Leja Maria M Kamińska Iwona I Kramer Maike M Maksylewicz-Kaul Anna A Kammerer Dietmar D Carle Reinhold R Baranski Rafal R
Plant foods for human nutrition (Dordrecht, Netherlands) 20130601 2
The contents of phenolic compounds and radical scavenging activities were assessed in a carrot collection comprising 35 cultivars, landraces and breeding populations. The accessions originated from various world regions and they represented Eastern and Western carrot gene pools. In two-year field trial carrot roots of orange, red, yellow, white and purple color were cultivated, freeze-dried and analyzed for phenolic content by Folin-Ciocalteu assay and UV/Vis assay. Radical scavenging activity i ...[more]