Little plant pigment stuff

What causes "urine blood"?

After the doctor's careful inquiry examination, the original Yang is "urine blood", the real reason is to eat red pitaya fruit caused by "false urine blood", also known as "beet red urine". Originally, red hearts pitaya contains a natural pigment called "sugar beet red pigment, beet red pigment is easily absorbed by decomposition, after eating will be excreted in urine, stool, because of different individuals, excretion also have different color, will this pigment because of different PH, different environment show different color. Appear this kind of circumstance, can need be nervous greatly, drink water more, answer pee a few times more, urine color can return to normal. Natural pigment manufacturer

What role does beet erythroid have

1. Medical value

Betaine has important medicinal value such as anti-oxidation, preventing tumor, reducing blood lipid relieving muscle fatigue. Beet erythromycin has strong antioxidant free radical scavenging abilities in vitro. Therefore, it can be used to treat the human body dysfunction related to oxidation coordination. Beet pigment only has antioxidant activity, but also can play a role in chemical prevention of cancer, can prevent the occurrence of malignant tumors.

2. Food processing

As a kind of natural pigment, beet pigment is safe non-toxic, can be used as food coloring for coloring protecting food. Edible beet is the main source of beet erythrocyte. The concentrated juice of beet root is usually used as food additive in the food industry. China's health standards for the use of food additives (GB2760 -- 81) approve the use of betaenin as a natural food pigment, stipulates that "betaenin can be used in all kinds of food, can be used in an appropriate amount according to the production needs".

Is beet erythroid anthocyanin?

The beet pigment in pitaya fruit is often mistaken for anthocyanin by some people, because it is similar to anthocyanin in color, but its chemical structure is completely different, it is two different pigment components. Beet erythroid anthocyanin cannot exist in the same angiosperms at the same time, they are mutually exclusive.

Beet pigment is only found in the skin of the white pitaya fruit, but in the flesh. It is found in both the flesh skin of the red pitaya, as well as in the beetroot, salt-root, amaranth, hummus, mirmiris. Anthocyanins are found in most of the color-producing flowers plants.

There are more than 20 kinds of anthocyanins, which have almost no free state in nature often exist in plant cells in the form of glycosides (anthocyanins). For example, the purple of eggplant skin, the red of apple strawberry, the red of watermelon, the purple of grape are all attributed to anthocyanins.

What other pigments affect body color?

chlorophyll

Leaf green a is blue-green leaf green b is yellow-green. When consuming a lot of green vegetables, your stool may appear green because it contains a lot of chlorophyll fiber.

carotenoids

Because the carotenoid is the fat soluble pigment, insoluble in water, after excessive consumption because it is easy to completely excrete the digestive tract, so the skin will yellow. Citrus, carrots, so on contain carotenoids.

What effect does plant pigment have to human body?

These natural plant pigments (leaf green, carotenoid, anthocyanin beet pigments) are only harmless to human body, but also have certain biological activities:

1, beet pigment can be antioxidant, free radical scavenging, anti-fatigue.

2, anthocyanins have antioxidant, prevent the formation of skin wrinkles, improve vision other effects.

3. Chlorophyll has the functions of promoting hematopoiesis, activating cells, antibacterial anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer, protecting liver anti-mutagenesis.

4. Carotenoids can reduce age-related prostate disease age-related macular degeneration, are the scavenger of oxidized free radicals in the biological body to prevent oxidative damage to cells.

What else do natural pigments have?

1. Tetrapyrrole pigment

Including heme in meat chlorophyll in green vegetables. They are good at capturing transmitting light energy like to "trap" metal ions.

2. Carotenoids

It includes a range of pigments yellow to orange yellow to red, including carotene in carrots, oranges, mangoes pumpkins, lycopene in watermelon, tomatoes blood oranges. What lutein, zeaxanthin, citrus flavin, capsaicin, astaxanthin so on belong to this kind.

3. Polyphenolic pigments

It includes anthocyanins other flavonoid pigments, such as flavonoids. Anthocyanins are a big family, but they are very much the same, with hues ranging Burgundy to purple to blue-purple to purple-black. The color of most blue-purple purplish black foods is due to anthocyanins, such as purple potato, purple cabbage, purple onion, blueberry, mulberry, purple black cherry, black peanut, black rice, black soybean, black corn kernels, etc. Flavonoids range colorless to yellow in color, are usually light understated.

4. Beet pigment

Including beet erythrocyte beet flavin. Beet red element is actually rare, red beet head, cowskin vegetables (leaf beet), red amaranth, red pitaya fruit that kind of rose-red color, is beet red element brought.