| Literature DB >> 10850526 |
F Delgado-Vargas1, A R Jiménez, O Paredes-López.
Abstract
Pigments are present in all living matter and provide attractive colors and play basic roles in the development of organisms. Human beings, like most animals, come in contact with their surroundings through color, and things can or cannot be acceptable based on their color characteristics. This review presents the basic information about pigments focusing attention on the natural ones; it emphasizes the principal plant pigments: carotenoids, anthocyanins, and betalains. Special considerations are given to their salient characteristics; to their biosynthesis, taking into account the biochemical and molecular biology information generated in their elucidation; and to the processing and stability properties of these compounds as food colorants.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID： 10850526 DOI： 10.1080/10408690091189257
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr ISSN： 1040-8398 Impact factor: 11.176