“…There is a wealth of studies devoted to the assessment of the AC of individual carotenoid or carotenoid extracts, although the evaluation of the possible existence of interactions between antioxidant species, with few exceptions (Liu, Shi, Colina Ibarra, Kakuda, & Jun Xue, 2008;Shi et al, 2007;Shixian et al, 2005;Zanfini, Corbini, La Rosa, & Dreassi, 2010), has been largely overlooked. This information is of little value if it comes to try to extrapolate the observations of in vitro studies in solutions to an in vivo scenario.…”