carotene

I loved the code name for that version: carotene

The carotene butter sounds good, I'll try that.

So it takes a lot of carrots to make a large batch of carotene butter.

Rice leaves are already full of beta-carotene but are inedible.

Small farms probably aren't deliberately pumping beta carotene into their hens, and battery farms don't fortify their feed to change yolk color.

We see negative health outcomes from substances such as beta-carotene, vitamin E, and folic acid in supplemental form [2], while high levels in whole foods demonstrate no such harms.

In it, 18,000 people who were at an increased risk of lung cancer because of asbestos exposure or smoking received a combination of vitamin A and beta carotene, or a placebo.

"Based on properly designed and conducted randomised clinical trials, convincing evidence that beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin C, and vitamin E or their combinations may prevent gastrointestinal cancers is not found [...] These antioxidant supplements even seem to increase mortality.

Interesting molecular gastronomy idea: Take the carotene butter as mentioned, mix with tapioca maltodextrin to make a carrot flavored powder, then take carrot cake cupcakes with a buttercream frosting make with carotene butter and drizzle the powder on the frosting as a topping.

Also, instead of giving proper references to papers, the author takes the scumbag approach of being vague "in 2004, a review of 14 randomized trials for the Cochrane Database found that the supplemental vitamins A, C, E and beta carotene, and a mineral, selenium, taken to prevent intestinal cancers, actually increased mortality.