Multi-colored shades of betalains: recent advances in betacyanin chemistry
Authors:
- Agnieszka Kumorkiewicz-Jamro,
- Tomasz Świergosz,
- Katarzyna Sutor,
- Aneta Spórna-Kucab,
- Sławomir Wybraniec
Abstract
Betacyanins cover a class of remarkable natural red-violet plant pigments with prospective chemical and biological properties for wide-ranging applications in food, pharmaceuticals, and the cosmetic industry. Betacyanins, forming the betalain pigment group together with yellow betaxanthins, have gained much attention due to the increasing social awareness of the positive impact of natural products on human health. Betalains are commercially recognized as natural food colorants with preliminarily ascertained, but to be further investigated, health-promoting properties. In addition, they exhibit a remarkable structural diversity based on glycosylated and acylated varieties. The main research directions for natural plant pigments are focused on their structure elucidation, methods of their separation and analysis, biological activities, bioavailability, factors affecting their stability, industrial applications as a plant-based food, natural colorants, drugs, and cosmetics as well as methods for high-yield production and stabilization. This review covers period of the last two decades of betacyanin research. In the first part of the review, we present an updated classification of all known betacyanins and their derivatives identified by chemical means as well as by mass spectrometric and NMR techniques. In the second part, we review the current research reports focused on the chemical properties of the pigments (decarboxylation, oxidation, conjugation, and chlorination reactions as well as the acyl group migration phenomenon) and describe the semi-synthesis of natural and artificial fluorescent betalamic acid conjugates, showing various prospective research directions.
- Record ID
- CUT1502da8554e24b7db8fdd4fb699d3bfb
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Natural Product Reports, ISSN 0265-0568, e-ISSN 1460-4752
- Issue year
- 2021
- Vol
- 38
- No
- 12
- Pages
- 2315-2346
- Other elements of collation
- fot.; rys.; schem.; tab.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 2343-2346; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 173; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Streszcz. ang.; Data udostępnienia on-line - 2021-09-13; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 38, Iss. 12
- Keywords in English
- betacyanins, structure elucidation, separation, analysis, biological activities, bioavailability, factors affecting stability, industrial applications, LC, LC-MS, NMR
- DOI
- DOI:10.1039/D1NP00018G Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/np/d1np00018g Opening in a new tab
- Related project
- Badania aktywności i stabilności barwników gomfreninowych z ekstraktów Basella alba L.. . Project leader at PK: , ,
Projects financed by NSC [Projekty finansowane przez NCN] - Aktywność biologiczna betalain z Artiplex hortensis var. Rubra - znaczenie dietetyczne alternatywnego, jadalnego źródła barwników dla projektowania nowej żywności funkcjonalnej. . Project leader at PK: , ,
Projects financed by NSC [Projekty finansowane przez NCN]
- Badania aktywności i stabilności barwników gomfreninowych z ekstraktów Basella alba L.. . Project leader at PK: , ,
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 200
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Web of Science
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT1502da8554e24b7db8fdd4fb699d3bfb/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT1502da8554e24b7db8fdd4fb699d3bfb
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