Biological properties and applications of betalains

I Sadowska-Bartosz, G Bartosz - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Betalains are water-soluble pigments present in vacuoles of plants of the order
Caryophyllales and in mushrooms of the genera Amanita, Hygrocybe and Hygrophorus …

Update on natural food pigments-A mini-review on carotenoids, anthocyanins, and betalains

DB Rodriguez-Amaya - Food Research International, 2019 - Elsevier
Extensive structure elucidation has revealed a remarkable diversity of structures for
carotenoids, anthocyanins, and betalains, the major natural pigments in plant-derived foods …

Development of active and intelligent packaging by incorporating betalains from red pitaya (Hylocereus polyrhizus) peel into starch/polyvinyl alcohol films

Y Qin, Y Liu, X Zhang, J Liu - Food Hydrocolloids, 2020 - Elsevier
This study aims to develop active and intelligent packaging films based on starch/polyvinyl
alcohol incorporated with betalains-rich red pitaya (Hylocereus polyrhizus) peel extract. The …

A starch-based pH-sensing and ammonia detector film containing betacyanin of paperflower for application in intelligent packaging of fish

S Naghdi, M Rezaei, M Abdollahi - International Journal of Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
An easy-to-use food packaging label with pH and ammonia sensitivity was developed by
adding betacyanin (5, 10 and 15 mg per g of starch) from flowers of paperflower …

Sources, stability, encapsulation and application of natural pigments in foods

S Jurić, M Jurić, Ż Król-Kilińska… - Food Reviews …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, the replacement of synthetic colorants with natural ones has attracted
increasing consumers' and market interest. Natural colorants include different groups of …

Phytonutrients, Colorant Pigments, Phytochemicals, and Antioxidant Potential of Orphan Leafy Amaranthus Species

U Sarker, MG Rabbani, S Oba, WM Eldehna… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The underutilized Amaranthus leafy vegetables are a unique basis of pigments such as β-
cyanins, β-xanthins, and betalains with radical scavenging capacity (RSC). They have …

Chemical and antioxidant properties of betalains

I Belhadj Slimen, T Najar… - Journal of agricultural and …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Betalains are vacuolar pigments composed of a nitrogenous core structure, betalamic acid.
Betalamic acid condenses with imino compounds (cyclo-DOPA/its glucosyl derivates) or …

Salt Eustress Induction in Red Amaranth (Amaranthus gangeticus) Augments Nutritional, Phenolic Acids and Antiradical Potential of Leaves

U Sarker, S Ercisli - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Earlier researchers have highlighted the utilization of salt eustress for boosting the
nutritional and phenolic acid (PA) profiles and antiradical potential (ARP) of vegetables …

Prospects and potentials of underutilized leafy Amaranths as vegetable use for health-promotion

U Sarker, YP Lin, S Oba, Y Yoshioka… - Plant Physiology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change causes environmental variation worldwide, which is one of the most serious
threats to global food security. In addition, more than 2 billion people in the world are …

“La Vie en Rose”: biosynthesis, sources, and applications of betalain pigments

G Polturak, A Aharoni - Molecular plant, 2018 - cell.com
Betalains are tyrosine-derived red-violet and yellow pigments found exclusively in plants of
the Caryophyllales order, which have drawn both scientific and economic interest …