Why eat gojiberry more to help protect your eyes?（part.2）
The results showed that the eye pigment lutein and zeaxanthin density increased significantly in the experimental group, while there was no increase in the eye pigment density in the control group.
The orange-red color of gojiberry Carotenoid (which is why the Carotenoid dissolved in water to produce orange-red color after soaking in water) . The content of gojiberry is 0.03% ~ 0.5% of the dried fruit. There are 11 kinds of free Carotenoid and 7 kinds of Carotenoid in Chinese gojiberry.
Free Carotenoid include beta-carotene, beta-cryptoxanthin and zeaxanthin. The Carotenoid fatty acid esters were mainly zeaxanthin palmitic acid, zeaxanthin palmitic acid and β-cryptoxanthin palmitic acid. The major Carotenoid is zeaxanthin in esterified form, which accounts for one-third to one-half of the total Carotenoid. The contents of total carotene in dried and fresh gojiberry L. were 168MG/100g and 173MG/100g, respectively.
