Carotenoids are natural pigments that are found throughout the
flowering plant kingdom as a pigment. They are mostly responsible
for the yellow, orange and red color of fruits, and some of them are
important vitamin A precursors (da Silva et al., 2014). In one study,
thirteen carotenoids were identified and separated in passion fruit
using HPLC, with z-carotene identified as the predominant com-
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