Biography
Biography: Tanveer Alam
Abstract
The worldwide demand for natural colors is nowadays of great interest due to the increased awareness on the therapeutic properties of natural colors in public. Natural colors are derived from naturally occurring sources such as plants, insects, animals and minerals. Several synthetic colorants have been banned because they cause allergy-like symptoms or are carcinogens. Among the all-natural colors, plant-based pigments have wide range of medicinal values. The present topic, describes the detail information about chemistry of the major pigments and their medicinal importance found in naturally occurring color yielding plants and animals, which are helpful to further development of pharmaceutical formulation. Keywords: Natural food color, water soluble, extraction, pigments.