Background The recent rise in awareness of safe food and changing consumer attitudes
have brought many innovations in packaging technology. Consumers are increasingly …

Highlights•Natural food pigments are actively studied because of potential health benefits.•A
diversity of plant and microbial sources has been reported.•Processing effects have been …

Antioxidant and intelligent pH-sensing films were prepared by incorporating anthocyanin-
rich purple-fleshed sweet potato extract (PSPE) into chitosan matrix. Effect of PSPE …

Sweet potatoes are becoming a research focus in recent years due to their unique nutritional
and functional properties. Bioactive carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, carotenoids …

In recent years, the replacement of synthetic colorants with natural ones has attracted
increasing consumers' and market interest. Natural colorants include different groups of …

Anthocyanins, the natural red and purple colorants of berries, fruits, vegetables, and tubers,
improve carbohydrate metabolism and decrease the risk factors of metabolic disorders, but …

Purple sweet potato anthocyanins are kinds of natural anthocyanin red pigments extracted
from the root or stem of purple sweet potato. They are stable and have the functions of anti …

Background As a category of natural colourants, anthocyanins are abundant in purple-
fleshed sweet potato (PFSP). Recently, anthocyanins from PFSP are proven to have multiple …

Nowadays, sweet potato (Ipomoea batata L.; Lam.) is considered a very interesting nutritive
food because it is rich in complex carbohydrates, but as a tubercle, contains high amounts of …

Until today, numerous studies evaluated the topic of anthocyanins and various types of
cancer, regarding the anthocyanins' preventative and inhibitory effects, underlying molecular …