Table 1.

Diet Composition

Ingredient	AIN	Tomato1	Placebo2	Lycopene3
	g/kg diet
Cornstarch	398	331	398	398
Casein	200	188	200	200
Maltodextrin	102	132	102	102
Sucrose	100	100	100	100
Nonnutritive cellulose	50	34	50	50
Mineral mix4	35	35	35	35
Vitamin mix5	10	10	10	10
L-Cystine	3	3	3	3
Choline bitartrate	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5
Soybean oil	100	65	100	100
TP	0	100	0	0
10% LYC	0	0	0	0.1
PB	0	0	0.1	0

¹As measured by HPLC; the tomato powder (FutureCeuticals, Momence, IL) diet contained 181 ± 42 nmol lycopene, 10.1 nmol phytoene, 2.6 nmol phytofluene and 0.8 nmol β-carotene per gram of diet.

²As measured by HPLC; the placebo beadlet (DSM) diet provided 0 mg carotenoids/g diet.

³As measured by HPLC; the lycopene-beadlet (10% DSM) diet provided 152 ± 7 nmol lycopene per gram of diet.

⁴AIN93M-MX formulation.

⁵AIN93-VX formulation with 1.57 mol retinyl palmitate/g diet.