Lycopene physical and chemical effect

Singlet oxygen and peroxyl radicals in vivo has strong activity of free radicals, lycopene can synergy by physical and chemical methods, singlet oxygen quenching and capture the excessive body and peroxide free radicals.

  Pan et al. (2004) to study the effect of lycopene on Antioxidation of rats body, test 4 weeks after (instant fruit drink powder) the detection of plasma and liver in rats SOD (SOD) activity, malondialdehyde (MDA) content, glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activity and total antioxidant capacity (T-AOC), compared with the control group the experimental group rats, SOD, GSH-Px and T-AOC activity increased significantly, MDA content had significantly lower trend, that Lycopene Softgels with antioxidation function.

The ability of scavenging free radicals,astaxanthin

Natural astaxanthin antioxidative activity exceed existing antioxidants. Its ability to scavenge free radicals as follows, astaxanthin is 6000 times of the effects of vitamin C, 1000 times of vitamin E ,800 times of coenzyme Q10,1800 times of nitric oxide,3100 times of natto, 700 times of anthocyanin,100 times of the beta carotene is lycopene ,1800 times of lycopene,200 times  of Lutein, 320 times of tea polyphenols.

  Only algae and yeast , bacteria can produce astaxanthin, which higher animal cannot change the chemical structure. Natural astaxanthin has a clear characteristic, which is only one carotenoid  through the blood brain barrier .

The summary of lycopene

Lycopene ,a kind of important carotenoid,widely distributed in nature,content higher in the mature red fruit crop.such as tomatoes, carrots, watermelon,highest in tomato ,each 100g content of up to 3 ~ 14mg.

In addition, lycopene content and plant fruit maturity has a direct positive relationship.The relative molecular mass of lycopene was 536.85.Molecular formula is C40H56, containing 11 conjugated double bonds and 2 non conjugated double bond.Easily soluble in chloroformand benzene,can soluble in ether and acetone,hardly insoluble in methanol and ethanol, insoluble in water. Natural plant lycopene almost exsit in trans structure form, after entering the animal body lycopene exist isomers , but with more cis isomers .

In the animal body, lycopene by intestinal absorption and plasma chylomicron binding into lymphatic, then with the blood circulation distributed to all of the tissues of the body organs, but mainly accumulated in low density lipoprotein and very low density lipoprotein, but present more  in the liver, testes, adrenal gland other tissues and organs.