To provide a highly pure, inexpensive and safe composition having high carotenoid content and a method for the industrial production of the composition and further provide functional foods, pharmaceutical compositions and cosmetics containing the composition.
The method for the production of a composition having a carotenoid content of ≥80% comprises the extraction of a carotenoid-containing culture product of a microorganism, a concentration product of the culture product or a dried product of the culture product with a lower alcohol, the concentration of the extracted liquid and the washing of the obtained precipitate with a water-containing lower alcohol or a combination of a water-containing lower alcohol and a hydrocarbon solvent. The invention further discloses foods, pharmaceutical compositions and cosmetics containing the carotenoid-containing composition.
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