ABSTRACT
Solanum lycopersicum
) exhibits the highest antioxidant activity and
singlet oxygen quenching
ability of all dietary carotenoids.
The carotenoids are substances with very special and remarkable properties that no other groups of substances possess and that form the basis of their many, varied functions and actions in all kinds of living organisms. Without carotenoids,
photosynthesis
and all life in an oxygen atmosphere would be impossible.
