carotin

The content of vitamin A and carotin is maintained and vitamin B and vitamin C are also well preserved.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1945 - Presentation Speech 1964

Root contains some volatile oil, a large proportion of pectin, a peculiar coloring principle called carotin, and sugar.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

In this connection we may mention that one of the first results was the discovery that the yellow colouring matter in corpora lutea of cattle ovaries was by micro-analytical carbon hydrogen determination found to be carotin, the substance which is in carrots widely found in the vegetable kingdom.

Fritz Pregl - Nobel Lecture 1966

This observation suggested the chemical relation between the vitamine and carotin.

The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy

It has however been shown by Palmer and others that carotin is not vitamine A.

The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy

PALMER AND ECKLES: Chemical and physiological relation of pigment of milk fat to carotin and xanthophyll of green plants.

The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy

PALMER AND ECKLES: The fate of carotin and xanthophyll during digestion.

The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy

Typical cereal moulds like the Fusaria react differently to being illuminated, producing higher levels of light protection pigments like carotin, for instance.

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C {40} H {56} and was apparently identical with the carotin of the carrot, while the lutein of egg-yolk was C {40} H {56} O {2} and more soluble in alcohol, less soluble in petroleum ether, than that of the corpus luteum.

Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897