Carotenoids - Yellow and orange pigments that complement the green pigments of chlorophyll by abosrbing wavelengths of light that chloropyhll can not.
Dark green leafy vegetables, like spinach, contain lutein and zeaxanthin, both carotenoids. Studies show carotenoids help your eyes stay healthy as you age by preventing macular degeneration and the formation of cataracts.
There are two sets of secondary pigments to keep in mind: carotenoids that contain yellow to gold pigments and anthocyanins that contain red to purple pigments.
Yellow and orange pigments (carotenoids) that have always been present in the leaves now become visible while red pigments (anthocyanins) develop only in the fall.
As chlorophyll breaks down, leaves reflect the remaining leaf pigments that were there all along. Yellow is produced by carotenoids, the same pigment that gives carrots their color. The red color is produced by anthrocyanins.
'Carotenoids' are the yellow and orange pigments present in leaves (easy to remember because 'carrots' are orange). 'Anthocyanins' are the purples and reds.
“Vegetarian diets offer a number of advantages, including lower levels of saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein and higher levels of carbohydrates, fiber, magnesium, boron, folate, antioxidants such as vitamins C and E, carotenoids, ...
your body with antioxidants, blueberries are in anthocyanin pigments which are powerful antioxidants. And carrots contain carotenoid pigments, the darker the colour of a carrot means that this carrot contains a higher concentration of carotenoids ...
 See also: Carotenoid, Carotene, Care, Plant, Leaf
  
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