Anthocyanin pigments and associated flavonoids have demonstrated ability to protect against a myriad of human diseases, yet they have been notoriously difficult to study with regard to human health. Anthocyanins frequently interact with other phytochemicals to potentiate biological effects, thus contributions from individual components are difficult to decipher. The complex, multicomponent stru...

A comparison of the pigments in Fuchsia extorticata pollen with the pigments extracted from the unusually coloured blue-black “fuchsia” bee pollen confirms the New Zealand tree fuchsia as the source of the bee pollen. The pigments were identified as the p-trans-coumaroylated derivatives of delphindin-, petunidin and malvidin-3-O-glucosides and delphinidin-30-(/?-c/s-coumaroyl-glucoside). The an...

Email: [email protected] Abstract: Anthocyanins are a class of flavonoids with a high level of diversification and likely the most studied pathway of secondary metabolism in Plantae. Anthocyanins have raised a growing interest due to the huge variability of their chemical structures and the more new anthocyanins are isolated from plants, the more questions on their evolutionary and ecolo...

The anthocyanins of Siahe Sardasht variety (Vitis vinifera L. var. S.S.) were extracted from freezed samples and were purified by adsorption on cation-exchange resin column. Individual pigments were separated by TLC on cellulose plates. Monomeric anthocyanin content that was determined by pH-differential, was 1740.11±3.58 mgL?1 (based on malvidin 3-glucose). Five major pigments were identified ...

Anthocyanins are naturally occurring pigments ubiquitously present in plants and, as such, part of the human diet. Owing to their biological activity, anthocyanins have beneficial health effects but, unfortunately, are not present in some important crop plants, such as tomatoes. Recently, a 'purple' tomato, highly enriched with anthocyanins, was produced by the ectopic expression of two selecte...

Anthocyanins are an important group of highly hydrosoluble pigments in most species of plants. They are produced by secondary metabolism of plants (pentosophosphate, shikimate and flavonoid pathways) and are accumulated in cell vacuoles. In fruits and vegetables anthocyanins are present in the form of glycosides. The qualitative and quantitative determination of anthocyanins can be performed by...

The present work was carried out to produce a dry powder of red colour from roselle calyces for colouring some food products using microencapsulation technique. The stability of the encapsulated pigments was investigated during storage under different water activities. The results showed that ethanol acidified with 1.5N HCl (85:15) had the greatest efficiency in extracting roselle pigments foll...

Colon cancer is very common, but those who consume anthocyanins, common red pigments in wine, grapes and other fruits, appear to have lower rates of colon cancer. We investigated the fate of grape anthocyanins in the colon by using a pig model of the lower intestine and observed the rapid conversion to three simple phenols. These were studied, along with metabolites reported by others, for thei...

Jeffrey B. Harborne and Marian Boardley Phytochemical Unit, Plant Science Laboratories, University of Reading, Reading, U.K. Z. Naturforsch. 40c, 305—308 (1985); received January 16, 1985 Angiosperms, Flower Pigments, Malonated Anthocyanins, Zwitterions An electrophoretic survey of anthocyanins in flowers of 81 species belonging to 27 plant families indicated that malonated or similarly substit...

In recent years, public concern about the safety of synthetic pigments led to increasing interest in the development of food colorants from plant tissues, especially from some edible sources. As a group of natural, water-soluble and nontoxic pigments, anthocyanins are widely distributed in plant world and display a variety of colors from orange to purple (Fossen et al., 1998; Janna et al., 2007...