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Lycopene

A nutritional ingredient for a healthy antioxidant system

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Human Nutrition

Lycopene

Lycopene is a carotenoid naturally contained in the human diet, particularly in red fruits and vegetables. Tomatoes and tomato-based products are the main dietary sources of lycopene. Watermelons, guava and pink grapefruits are good sources of lycopene, too.

Lycopene is a non-provitamin A carotenoid well-known for its antioxidant properties.

Its chemical structure enables lycopene to be a strong quencher of singlet oxygen, and it can act on other free radicals as well. Lycopene is recognized as one of the most potent antioxidants found in the diet.

Thereby, lycopene supports a healthy antioxidant system to defend cells and tissues against oxidative damage.

LycoVit® lycopene is a nature-identical lycopene produced by synthesis and identical to the lycopene found in nature.

Sources: NIH National Library of Medicine, Dietary Supplements Fact Sheet, Lycopene (January 2025); USDA Food Database Lycopene (January 2025); Shafe MO et al, 2024; Kapala A et al, 2022; Przybylska S et al, 2022; Khan UM et al, 2021; Imran M et al, 2020; Di Mascio P et al, 1989.

Lycopene is well known and a popular antioxidant ingredient. Rising consumption of lycopene can be attributed to its applicability in an array of industries.

Lycopene is used in dietary supplements, personal care & cosmetics as well as pharmaceuticals.

It is also used in food, with soft drinks, meat substitutes and ready meals being interesting product categories.

Sources: Global Lycopene Market Size, Share Research Report and (globenewswire.com); Lycopene Market, Global Industry Size Forecast [Latest] (marketsandmarkets.com); Innova, January 2025.

Sources: Global Lycopene Market Size, Share Research Report and (globenewswire.com); Lycopene Market, Global Industry Size Forecast [Latest] (marketsandmarkets.com); Innova, January 2025.

Your benefits at a glance

What makes BASF’s LycoVit® an excellent choice for your products  and applications?

  • Reliability +
    • Trusted carotenoids supplier
    • Decades of experience in carotenoids production
    • Production sites in Germany and Denmark
  • Quality +
    • Clean dispersion with no added stabilizers
    • Highly compactable, directly compressible powder for tablets available
    • Cold-water dispersible powder with excellent colloidal stability available
  • Performance +
    • Portfolio comprising lycopene powders and a dispersion for use in dietary supplements and functional nutrition
    • Excellent stability of LycoVit® lycopene in multivitamin mineral tablets (DC powder)
  • Sustainability +
    • Efficient handling of resources enabled by the Verbund
    • High-quality PCF available

LycoVit® from BASF

  • Strong expertise in microencapsulation technology for carotenoid formulations
  • BASF offers Product Carbon Footprints calculated according to industry standard for the entire LycoVit® product range (TÜV Rheinland Certification)
  • Production excellence at our Verbund site Ludwigshafen (Germany) and in Ballerup (Denmark)

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