Food grade microalgae-based biopigments and their production technique versus synthetic colorants

Natural Food Colorants

Production of Food Grade Yeasts

Yeasts have been known to humans for thousands of years as they have been used in traditional fermentation processes like wine, beer and bread making. Today, yeasts are also used as alternative sources of high nutritional value proteins, enzymes and vitamins, and have numerous applications in the health food industry as food additives, conditioners and flavouring agents, for the production of m...

Microbial Production of Food Grade Pigments

Laurent Dufossé1,2* Laboratoire de Chimie des Substances Naturelles et des Sciences des Aliments, Faculté des Sciences et Technologies, E.S.I.D.A.I., Université de La Réunion, 15 avenue René Cassin, B.P. 7151, FR-97715 Saint-Denis Messag. Cedex 9, La Réunion, France Laboratoire ANTiOX, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, IUP Innovation en Industries Alimentaires, Pôle Technologique de Créac’h G...

Biofuels versus food production: Does biofuels production increase food prices?

Rapidly growing fossil energy consumption in the transport sector in the last two centuries caused problems such as increasing greenhouse gas emissions, growing energy dependency and supply insecurity. One approach to solve these problems could be to increase the use of biofuels. Preferred feedstocks for current 1st generation biofuels production are corn, wheat, sugarcane, soybean, rapeseed an...

Biopigments from Monascus: Strains Selection, Citrinin Production and Color Stability

Fungi form the genus Monascus are a promising source for natural color additives. However, before effectively applying Monascus to foods, it is important to select strains which produce large amounts of biopigments but little or no citrinin, a mycotoxin usually also produced by these fungi. Also, color stability of these pigments should be properly investigated. In order to compare Monascus str...