Table 1.

Carotenoid concentrations in serum and non-androgen sensitive tissues of rats fed a 10% tomato powder diet for 30 d and supplemented with a single oral dose of PE or PF on d 31.¹

Carotenoid	Tomato powder-fed ²	PE-24hr ³	PF-24hr ⁴
	Serum (nmol/L)
Phytoene	556 ± 55 ^c	1550 ± 240 ^d	508 ± 32 ^c
Phytofluene	403 ± 33^c	451 ± 34 ^c	1560 ± 160 ^d
Lycopene	288 ± 19	342 ± 40	313 ± 28
ζ-Carotene	48 ± 3	51 ± 4	48 ± 3
	Liver (nmol/g)
Phytoene	104.4 ± 13.3 ^a^,^b	121.6 ± 4.8 ^b	82.1 ± 5.9 ^a
Phytofluene	168.2 ± 20.7 ^a	119.5 ± 5.2 ^a	230.0 ± 15.1 ^b
Lycopene	103.6 ± 13.7	70.5 ± 6.5	82.8 ± 9.3
ζ-Carotene	15.4 ± 1.9	11.2 ± 0.6	12.2 ± 0.8
	Adrenal (nmol/g)
Phytoene	36. 8± 1.6 ^c	24.8 ± 1.7 ^d	26.7 ± 1.6 ^c^, ^d
Phytofluene	39.6 ± 1.6 ^c	28.4 ± 1.9 ^d	34.8 ± 1.7 ^c^, ^d
Lycopene	7.7 ± 0.9	5.8 ± 0.3	6.4 ± 0.6
ζ-Carotene	5.5 ± 0.3	4.1 ± 0.4	4.5 ± 0.3
	Spleen (nmol/g)
Phytoene	9.5 ± 0.4 ^c	21.8 ± 2.3 ^d	9.8 ± 0.3 ^c
Phytofluene	41.1 ± 1.3 ^c	41.8 ± 1.6 ^c	61.5 ± 2.1 ^d
Lycopene	60.2 ± 3.6	60.1 ± 2.7	56.7 ± 2.2
ζ-Carotene	4.4 ± 0.2	4.4 ± 0.2	4.4 ± 0.1
	Adipose (nmol/g)
Phytoene	0.15 ± 0.02 ^a^,^b	0.19 ± 0.03 ^b	0.11 ± 0.01 ^a
Phytofluene	0.19 ± 0.02 ^a	0.16 ± 0.01 ^a	0.28 ± 0.02 ^b
Lycopene	0.21 ± 0.03	0.18 ± 0.01	0.22 ± 0.01
ζ-Carotene	0.07 ± 0.01	0.06 ± 0.00	0.08 ± 0.00

Values are means ± SEM; liver, spleen, serum, and adipose, n = 8; adrenal, n = 3;

Tomato powder-fed = rats pre-fed 10% tomato powder diet for 30 d

PE-24hr = rats, pre-fed 10% tomato powder diet for 30 d, orally gavaged with 2.7 mg PE and euthanized 24 hr post-dose

⁴

PF-24hr = rats, pre-fed 10% tomato powder diet for 30 d, orally gavaged with 2.7 mg PF and euthanized 24 hr post-dose

^a,b

Means within a row with a different letter are statistically different (P < 0.05) determined by one-way ANOVA and post-hoc Tukey's studentized range test.

^c,d

Means within a row with a different letter are statistically different (P < 0.01) determined by one-way ANOVA and post-hoc Tukey's studentized range test.