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Study-specific avocado addition to salsa
Study-specific avocado addition to salsa. Species, exposure and limitations are retained in each linked claim.
1 recorded relationships. Experimental role, claim status and evidence remain attached to each record.
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What it does
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What it acts on
Adding avocado to salsa increased mean lycopene TRL AUC 4.4-fold compared with avocado-free salsa.
Experimental context and source evidence
- evidence_span
- {"source_cache": "artifacts/lycopene-research/15735074.abstract.txt", "locator": "Primary indexed abstract; zero-based, end-exclusive Unicode character offsets", "file_sha256": "31bfa6900bd41221e84a0713fc5ccf97341dfb80d997eecc37a1f2a121b9d814", "start_char": 0, "end_char": 1730, "text_sha256": "31bfa6900bd41221e84a0713fc5ccf97341dfb80d997eecc37a1f2a121b9d814"}
- experimental_model
- Acute crossover meal experiment
- exposure
- Salsa with or without 150 g avocado; 9.5-hour sampling
- limitations
- Food comparison, not a requirement for this quantity of fat or evidence of a specific fatty-acid cofactor.
- nutrient_topic
- Lycopene research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. · Lycopene
- organism
- Human, 11 participants in the salsa study
- plain_language
- Eating the carotenoid within a meal containing fat changed absorption.
- primary_references
- [lycopene-p15735074] Carotenoid absorption from salad and salsa by humans is enhanced by the addition of avocado or avocado oil. (2005). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15735074/ DOI: 10.1093/jn/135.3.431
- tissue_or_cell_type
- Postprandial triglyceride-rich lipoproteins
Lycopene: absorption, metabolism, nutrient connections and human outcomes (2026-09-17) · lines 767–778
AI-assisted literature curation; primary study URLs and scope retained in the document and extraction. Not publisher full text. · supports · Acute crossover meal experiment · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
### lycopene-avocado-absorption Adding avocado to salsa increased mean lycopene TRL AUC 4.4-fold compared with avocado-free salsa. Condition category: normal nutrient_topic: Lycopene research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. plain_language: Eating the carotenoid within a meal containing fat changed absorption. organism: Human, 11 participants in the salsa study tissue_or_cell_type: Postprandial triglyceride-rich lipoproteins experimental_model: Acute crossover meal experiment limitations: Food comparison, not a requirement for this quantity of fat or evidence of a specific fatty-acid cofactor. exposure: Salsa with or without 150 g avocado; 9.5-hour sampling evidence_span: {"source_cache": "artifacts/lycopene-research/15735074.abstract.txt", "locator": "Primary indexed abstract; zero-based, end-exclusive Unicode character offsets", "file_sha256": "31bfa6900bd41221e84a0713fc5ccf97341dfb80d997eecc37a1f2a121b9d814", "start_char": 0, "end_char": 1730, "text_sha256": "31bfa6900bd41221e84a0713fc5ccf97341dfb80d997eecc37a1f2a121b9d814"} [lycopene-p15735074] Carotenoid absorption from salad and salsa by humans is enhanced by the addition of avocado or avocado oil. (2005). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15735074/ DOI: 10.1093/jn/135.3.431
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