Innovative supercritical CO2 extraction of lycopene from tomato in the presence of vegetable oil as co-solvent

Use of compressed fluids for sample preparation: Food applications

This review attempts to provide an updated overview (including works published till June 2006) on the latest applications of compressed fluids as sample preparation techniques for food analysis. After a general review of the principles of supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) and pressurized liquid extraction (PLE; also called accelerated solvent extraction, ASE or subcritical water extraction, SWE, when water is employed as extraction solvent), the principal applications of such techniques in the mentioned fields of food and natural products are described, discussing their main advantages and drawbacks.

Extraction of lycopene from tomato skin with supercritical carbon dioxide: effect of operating conditions and solubility analysis

Supercritical carbon dioxide (SCCO2) extraction of lycopene from waste tomato skins was investigated. The experiments were carried out at pressures and temperatures ranging from 20 to 50 MPa and 313 to 373 K, respectively, without any modifiers. The flow rate of CO2 was maintained at 2.5 mL/min for 330 min extraction time. Solvent flow rate effect was examined for CO2 flow rates from 1.5 to 4.5 mL/min. The extracts were analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography and UV-visible spectroscopy. The results showed that with optimized operating conditions, the maximum yield of lycopene (1.18 mg of lycopene/g of sample) was obtained at 40 MPa, 373 K, and 2.5 mL of CO2/min. Chromatographic analysis indicated that lycopene was extracted from tomato skin with negligible degradation at the optimum conditions and the amount extracted represented more than 94% of the total carotenoid content of the sample. The solubility of lycopene was modeled by use of the Chrastil equation.

Determination of lycopene and β-carotene by high-performance liquid chromatography using sudan I as internal standard

A new method, using sudan I as internal standard to determine the content of lycopene or beta-carotene in samples, was developed. According to UV-vis absorption spectra, sudan I, lycopene and beta-carotene all had absorption peaks at 450 nm. They could be separated absolutely by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with retention time of 2.7, 6.6 and 10.1 min, respectively. The related equations between sudan I and lycopene or beta-carotene content were obtained and verified by determining the content of lycopene or beta-carotene in Blakeslea trispora cells. The relative error was below 1.4% for determining lycopene content and below 1.9% for beta-carotene. Intra-day variability for lycopene determination was less than 3.4% and for beta-carotene was less than 1.4%. The mean recovery of lycopene or beta-carotene was 96.1 and 97.9%, respectively.

Carotenoids Extraction from Japanese Persimmon (Hachiya-kaki) Peels by Supercritical CO2 with Ethanol

The extraction of carotenoids from Japanese persimmon peels by supercritical fluid extraction (SFE), of which the solvent was CO(2), was performed. In order to enhance the yield and selectivity of the extraction, some portion of ethanol (5 - 20 mol%) was added as an entrainer. The extraction temperature ranged from 313 to 353 K and the pressure was 30 MPa. The effect of temperature on the extraction yield of carotenoids was investigated at 10 mol% of the ethanol concentration in the extraction solvent, and a suitable temperature was found to be 333 K among the temperatures studied with respect to the carotenoid yield. With increasing the entrainer amount from 0 to 10 mol% at a constant temperature (333 K), the carotenoid yield in the extraction was improved, whereas the selectivity of the extracted carotenoids was drastically depressed. We also conducted qualitative and quantitative analyses for the carotenoid components in the extract by HPLC, and analyzed the extraction behavior of each individual carotenoid (alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, beta-cryptoxanthin, lycopene, lutein, and zeaxanthin). The selectivity of each carotenoid changed with the elapsed time and its time evolution was dependent on the carotenoid component, indicating that the location profile and the content can be important factors to understand the SFE behavior of each carotenoid in persimmon peels.