date:Aug 21, 2017
nature. Some of these new pigments may potentially prove more stable than the naturally occurring betalains, says Polturak. This can be of major significance in the food industry, which makes extensive use of betalains as natural food dyes, for example, in strawberry yogurts.
Furthermore, the findings of the study may be used by the drug industry. When plants start manufacturing betalains, the first step is conversion of tyrosine into an intermediate product, the chemical called L-dopa. Not on