Carotenoids and Coronary heart disease

Carotenoids are organic pigments, occurring in the chloroplasts and chromoplasts of plants and some other photosynthetic organisms like algae, some bacteria.

Carotenoids and Coronary heart disease
diseaseIn the examination of the associations between fruit and vegetables of different colours and their subgroups and 10-year CHD incidence, indicated that No clear associations were found for the colour groups separately. However, each 25 g/d increase in the intake of deep orange fruit and vegetables was inversely associated with CHD (HR 0·74; 95 % CI 0·55, 1·00). Carrots, their largest contributor (60 %), were associated with a 32 % lower risk of CHD (HR 0·68; 95 % CI 0·48, 0·98), according to "Colours of fruit and vegetables and 10-year incidence of CHD" by Oude Griep LM, Verschuren WM, Kromhout D, Ocké MC, Geleijnse JM.(8)


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(8) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21676275