Skin Carotenoid Status of Black/African American College Students Correlates with Plasma Carotenoids and Fruit and Vegetable Intake Independent of Skin Tone : Table 3

Table 3: Correlation between individual plasma and dietary carotenoids with RS Score, and individual carotenoids in plasma with individual dietary carotenoids in a study to determine whether pressure-mediated reflection spectroscopy (RS Score) measured by Veggie Meter can be used as a valid biomarker of fruit and vegetable (F/V) intake among African American/Black college students (Maryland, January to May 2019).
^a Not Significant, ^* statistical significance <0.05.

Carotenoid	Correlation between plasma individual carotenoid concentration (mg/L) and RS Score	Correlation between dietary individual carotenoid (μg/day) and RS Score	Correlation between individual carotenoid concentration in plasma (mg/L) with individual dietary carotenoid (μg/day)
β-Carotene	R= 0.435*	R= 0.228*	NS
α-Carotene	R= 0.386*	NS^a	NS
β-Cryptoxanthine	R= 0.233*	NS	R= 0.255*
Lycopene	R= 0.405*	NS	NS
Lutein+Zeaxanthine	R= 0.315*	R= 0.281*	R= 0.201*