betanin

It is very similar to betanin, the pigment found in beets.

Betanin can be also used for coloring meat and sausages.

Betanin can survive pasteurization when in products with high sugar content.

In dry form betanin is stable in presence of oxygen.

Betanin is commercially used as a natural food dye.

Betanin absorbs well from the gut and acts as an antioxidant.

Consuming beets can result in beeturia (pink/red urine containing betanin) for some 10-14% of the population.

The color is caused by the excretion of betalain (betacyanin) pigments such as betanin.

Betanin is a betalain pigment, together with isobetanin, probetanin, and neobetanin.

Apart from cochineal, the red dye betanin can be extracted from some Opuntia plants themselves.

Betanin is a glucoside, and hydrolyzes into the sugar glucose and betanidin.

Once the pH reaches alkaline levels betanin degrades by hydrolysis, resulting in a yellow-brown color.

The Sicilian prickly pear contains betalain, betanin and indicaxanthin, with highest levels in their fruits.

(They contain a crimson dye called betanin, which stains other ingredients, so I usually toss them in the dressing separately.)

The most heavily studied betalain is betanin, also called beetroot red after the fact that it may be extracted from red beet roots.

The color of betanin depends on pH; between four and five it is bright bluish-red, becoming blue-violet as the pH increases.

Some of the betalains in beets are betanin, isobetanin, probetanin, and neobetanin (the red to violet ones are known collectively as betacyanin).

Betanin degrades when subjected to light, heat, and oxygen; therefore, it is used in frozen products, products with short shelf life, or products sold in dry state.

Other dietary sources of betanin and other betalains include the opuntia cactus, Swiss chard, and the leaves of some strains of amaranth.

Paulo Sérgio Betanin (born 10 January 1986), more commonly known as Paulinho, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Livorno.

Betanin is usually obtained from the extract of beet juice; the concentration of betanin in red beet can reach 300-600 mg/kg.

The red colour compound betanin is not broken down in the body, and in higher concentration may temporarily cause urine (termed beeturia) and stool to assume a reddish colour.

It has been suggested the pigment molecule betanin in the root of red beets may protect against oxidative stress and has been used for this purpose in Europe for centuries.

The most common uses of betanin are in coloring ice cream and powdered soft drink beverages; other uses are in some sugar confectionery, e.g. fondants, sugar strands, sugar coatings, and fruit or cream fillings.