Biocolorants in food: Sources, extraction, applications and future prospects.
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| Title: | Biocolorants in food: Sources, extraction, applications and future prospects. |
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| Authors: | Thakur, Monika1 (AUTHOR) mthakur1@amity.edu, Modi, V. K.1 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Critical Reviews in Food Science & Nutrition. 2024, Vol. 64 Issue 14, p4674-4713. 40p. |
| Subjects: | Food color, Artificial foods, Natural resources, Food industry, Quality control |
| Abstract: | Color of a food is one of the major factors influencing its acceptance by consumers. At presently synthetic dyes are the most commonly used food colorant in food industry by providing more esthetically appearance and as a means to quality control. However, the growing concern about health and environmental due to associated toxicity with synthetic food colorants has accelerated the global efforts to replace them with safer and healthy food colorants obtained from natural resources (plants, microorganisms, and animals). Further, many of these biocolorants not only provide myriad of colors to the food but also exert biological properties, thus they can be used as nutraceuticals in foods and beverages. In order to understand the importance of nature-derived pigments as food colorants, this review provides a thorough discussion on the natural origin of food colorants. Following this, different extraction methods for isolating biocolorants from plants and microbes were also discussed. Many of these biocolorants not only provide color, but also have many health promoting properties, for this reason their physicochemical and biological properties were also reviewed. Finally, current trends on the use of biocolorants in foods, and the challenges faced by the biocolorants in their effective utilization by food industry and possible solutions to these challenges were discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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