{"id":24,"date":"2008-11-24T20:28:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T03:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/betacarotene.php"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:19:07","slug":"betacarotene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/betacarotene\/","title":{"rendered":"Beta-Carotene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/carotenoids\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #4b86bc\">carotenoid<\/span><\/strong><\/a> family of antioxidants with provitamin A activity.\u00a0 The vitamin A activity\u00a0of beta-carotene in food\u00a0is <a href=\"http:\/\/lpi.oregonstate.edu\/infocenter\/phytochemicals\/carotenoids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approx. 1\/12 that of retinol<\/a> (pre-formed Vitamin A).\u00a0 Beta-carotene is most abundant in orange\/yellow vegetables and fruits, such as carrots, pumpkin and winter squash.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/vitamins\/beta-carotene.html\" target=\"_blank\">beta-carotene<\/a>\u00a0review in the Vitamins and Minerals section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the carotenoid family of antioxidants with provitamin A activity.\u00a0 The vitamin A activity\u00a0of beta-carotene in food\u00a0is approx. 1\/12 that of retinol (pre-formed Vitamin A).\u00a0 Beta-carotene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[124,165,232,967,971,972],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}