Worldwide, approaches inspired by the Circular Economy model have been increasing
steadily, generating new business opportunities such as the recovery of high‐added value …

In recent years, the replacement of synthetic colorants with natural ones has attracted
increasing consumers' and market interest. Natural colorants include different groups of …

Dragon fruit (Hylocereus genus) has the potential for the prevention of diseases associated
with inflammatory and oxidative processes. We aimed to comprehensively review dragon …

Color additives are important for the food industry to improve sensory quality lost during food
process and to expand the variety of products. In general, artificial colorants have lower cost …

Betalains are plant pigments with functional properties used mainly as food dyes. However,
they have been shown to be unstable to different environmental factors. This paper provides …

Natural pigments provide a range of appealing colors to flowers, fruits, and vegetables while
exhibiting potential beneficial health effects. In contrast, synthetic food colorants are often …

There is an increasing interest in the use of natural food colorants to substitute synthetic
dyes that are health harmful. In this study, encapsulation conditions of yellow-orange cactus …

Betalains are pigments that have properties that benefit health, such as antioxidant,
anticancer, and antimicrobial activity, and they also possess a high ability to provide color …

Different encapsulating agents from agroindustrial waste were tested to encapsulate
betalains from red pitaya for use as natural pigments. Mucilage, extracted from the fruit peel …

Betalains are attractive natural pigments with potent antioxidant activity, mainly extracted
from the roots, tubers, leaves, flowers, and fruits of certain plants and some fungi. They …