Departement of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, 98168 Messina, Italy.
Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, 98168 Messina, Italy.
Nutrients. 2023 Apr 16;15(8):1923. doi: 10.3390/nu15081923.
In addition to fulfilling their function of giving color, many natural pigments are known as interesting bioactive compounds with potential health benefits. These compounds have various applications. In recent times, in the food industry, there has been a spread of natural pigment application in many fields, such as pharmacology and toxicology, in the textile and printing industry and in the dairy and fish industry, with almost all major natural pigment classes being used in at least one sector of the food industry. In this scenario, the cost-effective benefits for the industry will be welcome, but they will be obscured by the benefits for people. Obtaining easily usable, non-toxic, eco-sustainable, cheap and biodegradable pigments represents the future in which researchers should invest.
除了赋予颜色的功能外，许多天然色素还被认为是具有潜在健康益处的有趣生物活性化合物。这些化合物有多种用途。在最近的时间里，在食品工业中，天然色素的应用已经在许多领域得到了广泛的应用，如药理学和毒理学、纺织和印刷业以及乳制品和鱼类行业，几乎所有主要的天然色素类别都至少在食品工业的一个领域得到了应用。在这种情况下，对行业来说，具有成本效益的好处是受欢迎的，但这些好处将被人们所忽视。获得易于使用、无毒、生态可持续、廉价和可生物降解的色素代表了研究人员应该投资的未来。
