natural pigments

Introduction The food, beverage and cosmetic sectors frequently use pigment as an ingredient because consumers prefer colour. Pigments provide appealing colours to food as food additives and illustrate wonderful colours as dyes for textiles. The use of natural pigments has…

Introduction Carotenoids are one of the most abundant natural pigments on earth which belong to the group of tetraterpenes (C40). It is made up of eight isoprenoid units, containing hydrocarbons (carotenes) and their oxygenated derivatives (xanthophylls), (Luan et al., 2020).…