ArticleAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2022
Improving Skin Carotenoid Levels in Young Students through Brief Dietary Education Using the Veggie Meter.
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- Plasma carotenoids and skin carotenoid status response following short-term changes in carotenoid intakes: a randomised clinical trial.European journal of nutrition · 2025Trial
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- Skin carotenoids indicate diet, serum carotenoids, and inflammation across obesity and metabolic status in children.Nutrition & metabolism · 2026Article
- Development and Validation of the Adaptive Eating Scale: Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2026Article
- Skin and Macular Carotenoids in Relation to Brain Structure and Function in School-Aged Children.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Examining intra- and inter-device reliability of pressure-mediated reflection spectroscopy in a multi-state sample of healthy adults.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- Association of Veggie Meter-Assessed Skin Carotenoids and Dietary Intake Among Indigenous Families: The Indigenous Supported Agriculture "Go Healthy" Study.Current developments in nutrition · 2025Article
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- Skin Carotenoid Levels Are Associated with Demographic Factors, Body Size, and Fruit and Vegetable Intake in the Japanese Population.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Association between atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease score and skin carotenoid levels estimated via refraction spectroscopy in the Japanese population: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Natural Carotenoids: Recent Advances on Separation from Microbial Biomass and Methods of Analysis.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of carotenoid have been determined to aid in the prevention of a wide range of oxidative disorders, arteriosclerosis, obesity, and various types of cancers. In order to keep high carotenoid levels in the body, much of the vegetable and fruit (V/F) intake is mandatory. However, the actual intake of V/F is not enough in many countries. The aim of this study was to assess whether brief dietary education using the Veggie Meter (VM) that could measure skin carotenoid (SC) levels could induce the increase in carotenoid levels via V/F intake. Two hundred and sixty-one elementary and junior high school students (ages 7−14 years old) received brief educational session and SC evaluation by VM, and the changes in SC levels were examined after 6 months. The baseline VM scores ranged from 131 to 825, and the average significantly increased from 400.0 ± 124.7 (standard deviation) to 447.4 ± 140.4 at Month 6 (p < 0.0001). The percentage of increase at month 6 was negatively correlated with the baseline values (r = −0.36, p < 0.0001). This finding implies that subjects who became aware of their inferiority tended to make a significant effort to change their behavior. The multivariate logistic regression analysis demonstrated that subjects taking much of green and yellow vegetables, drinking vegetable/tomato juice, and eating any fruit had higher VM scores than the average value. In conclusion, the educational approach using VM was supposed to be an effective method of raising awareness of the V/F shortage and increasing V/F intake that could indue the increase in SC levels.
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