Betalains are water-soluble pigments present in vacuoles of plants of the order
Caryophyllales and in mushrooms of the genera Amanita, Hygrocybe and Hygrophorus …

Opuntia ficus-indica, commonly referred to as prickly pear or nopal cactus, is a
dicotyledonous angiosperm plant. It belongs to the Cactaceae family and is characterized by …

Consumers are increasingly avoiding foods containing synthetic colourants, which lead food
industries to replace them by natural pigments, such as carotenoids, betalains, anthocyanins …

In recent years, food coloring with artificial colorants has been increasingly disapproved by
consumers. In return, application of coloring foodstuffs, among them betalain‐containing …

Climate change causes environmental variation worldwide, which is one of the most serious
threats to global food security. In addition, more than 2 billion people in the world are …

The burden of neoplastic diseases is a significant global health challenge accounting for
thousands of deaths. In Uganda, about 32,617 cancer cases were reported in 2018 …

Natural products and health foods have recently received a lot of attention both by health
professionals and the common population for improving overall well-being, as well as in the …

Red beet has high concentration betalains that are used as food colorants and food
additives due to their health promoting properties. Redbeet is generally processed before …

Swiss chard (Beta vulgaris cicla, BVc) and beetroot (Beta vulgaris rubra, BVr) are vegetables
of the Chenopodiaceae family, widely consumed in traditional western cooking. These …

Betalains are unique nitrogen-containing pigments found exclusively in families of the
Caryophyllales order and some higher order fungi, where they replace anthocyanin …