The functionalizing of staple and economic foods, which means adding health-promoting substances, has been visualized as a solution to reduce the concerning increase in diet-related diseases caused by bad-eating patterns. Microalgae represent an innovative way solve this problem. Arthrospira platensis, microalgae nutritionally rich bioactive compounds, used develop hard wheat pasta (semolina) i...

The secretion from the hippopotamus’ skin changes its color from colorless to red, and then brown by polymerization of its pigments. The responsible pigments for the coloring reaction were isolated and denoted as hipposudoric acid (the red pigment) and norhipposudoric acid (the orange pigment). The syntheses of these pigments and the related derivatives were performed, and the latter were of us...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The edible blue pigments produced by gardenia fruits have been used as value-added colorants for foods in East Asia for 20 years. However, the biological activity of the blue pigments derived from genipin has not been reported. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The anti-inflammatory effect of blue pigments was studied in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulated RAW 264.7 macrop...

Carotenoid compositions of two freshwater Gammarus species (Crustacea: Amphipoda) and of their common acanthocephalan parasite Polymorphus minutus were characterized. The effect of carotenoid uptake by the parasite was addressed by comparing the carotenoid content of uninfected and infected female hosts. Using high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC), co-chromatography of reference pigments a...

Aquaculture wastewater is suitable for algal growth especially due to its ammonium and nitrate content. Therefore, the can be utilized after a few amendments biomass production recovery of valuable pigments. In present study, aquaculture discharged from Pangasius culture system was commercially cyanobacterium Spirulina (Arthrospira) platensis with an aim extract economically important pigments ...

Johan Lindgren introduces fossil pigments.

During the course of studies of the utilization of petroleum products by microorganisms, several Mycobacterium cultures were isolated which grew well in a mineral salts medium containing mineral oi,2 and as a result of their metabolism, "oil-soluble" pigments were produced which colored the oil yellow or orange. Since previous investigators have not described the production of "oil-soluble" pig...