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SUBMITTER: Vieira Teixeira da Silva D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6384587 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vieira Teixeira da Silva Davi D Dos Santos Baião Diego D de Oliveira Silva Fabrício F Alves Genilton G Perrone Daniel D Mere Del Aguila Eduardo E M Flosi Paschoalin Vania V
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20190128 3
Betanin is the only betalain approved for use in food and pharmaceutical products as a natural red colorant. However, the antioxidant power and health-promoting properties of this pigment have been disregarded, perhaps due to the difficulty in obtaining a stable chemical compound, which impairs its absorption and metabolism evaluation. Herein, betanin was purified by semi-preparative HPLC-LC/MS and identified by LC-ESI(+)-MS/MS as the pseudomolecular ion <i>m</i>/<i>z</i> 551.16. Betanin showed ...[more]