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Supercritical fluid carbon dioxide extraction of α-and β-carotene from carrot (Daucus carota L.)

✍ Scribed by Amitabh Chandra; Muraleedharan G. Nair


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
106 KB
Volume
8
Category
Article
ISSN
0958-0344

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✦ Synopsis


Carrots (Daucus carota L. var. Caro Pride) were extracted with supercritical fluid carbon dioxide (SFOC 2 ) under various combinations of pressures and solvent modifiers at 40°C and analysed for their ␣and ␤-carotene content by high pressure liquid chromatography. The SFCO 2 extraction at 40°C and 60.6 MPa with 5% chloroform as modifier afforded 111.16 and 148.32 g of ␣and ␤-carotene per gram of dried carrot, respectively. Also, this method extracted 92.70% of the total carotenoids present in the dried carrots when compared to the solvent extraction using chloroform (100%).