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Meso-zeaxanthin: a cutting-edge carotenoid By Richard Bone Print Comment Email Current evidence demonstrates that the carotenoids lutein, zeaxanthin and meso-zeaxanthin are readily bioavailable and if supplemented will effectively increase macular pigment levels. The distinction between each remains a focus of research in many labs. John T Landrum, PhD, and Richard A Bone, PhD, investigate Nowhere in the human body is the nutritional significance of carot-enoids more evident than in the retina.1,2,3 Here, at the centre of the retina (the ?fovea?), dietary xanthophylls are accumulated, c