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Abstract
Nutraceutical products are popular and used for supplementation of health promoting phytochemicals particularly when the fresh products are not available or accessible. The study analyzed the phytochemicals concentration of a vegetable mix and a fruit mix product and compared them with reported phytochemical content data of raw materials. Most of the phytochemicals such as violaxanthin, neoxanthin, zeaxanthin, β-cryptoxanthin, α-carotene, lycopene, luteolin, apigenin, kaempferol, hesperetin and isoquercetrin and cyanidin-3-O-glucoside were no detected in both of the vegetable mix and fruit mix supplement products. For detected phytochemicals, the content levels of commercial products were much lower than the reported data of raw materials. The reduced quality could be affected by the quality and quantity of the raw materials, varieties, processing methods and storage condition. The process into a powdery capsule was relatively cheap in production cost and convenient to access and consumption, however from the view of nutritional value, it was not cost-efficient to consume it. It is recommended to consume “real” food over at least 400g of fruits and vegetable per day when fresh fruit and vegetables are accessible and living condition is allowed.