Vegetable pigments and natural compounds applied as colorant and antioxidants in meat products: review

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Jader Martínez Girón
Jorge Armando Martínez
Laura García Hurtado
Jhoan David Cuaran
Yesica Alexandra Ocampo

Abstract

The necessity to find natural products to be applied as colorants and and/or antioxidants in meat products is a topic with a good reception today, due to the social interest for consuming nutritious and healthy products. For that reason, this article presents some of the main researches conducted national and internationally about this study field. It is important to emphasize that by this time, there are a large amount of vegetable products and sub products used as natural colorants and antioxidants in meat products, which are matter of research. In these products, there is presence of bioactive compounds of interest such as lycopene, capsanthin, anthocyanins, lutein, betalain, curcumin, among others as litchi flowers, leaves of M.Oleifera, carrot extract, etc.  

Author Biographies

Jader Martínez Girón, Universidad del Valle

Docente e investigador de la Universidad del Valle, Facultad de Ingeniería, Sede Palmira; químico y tecnólogo en alimentos; magíster en educación de la Universidad Católica de Oriente; magíster en ingeniería agroindustrial de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Palmira.

Jorge Armando Martínez, Universidad del Valle

Joven-Investigador(a) de la Universidad del Valle, Sede Palmira, Facultad de Ingeniería; estudiante del
Programa Académico de Tecnología en Alimentos.

Laura García Hurtado, Universidad del Valle

Joven-Investigador(a) de la Universidad del Valle, Sede Palmira, Facultad de Ingeniería; estudiante del
Programa Académico de Tecnología en Alimentos.

Jhoan David Cuaran, Universidad del Valle

Joven-Investigador(a) de la Universidad del Valle, Sede Palmira, Facultad de Ingeniería; estudiante del
Programa Académico de Tecnología en Alimentos.

Yesica Alexandra Ocampo, Universidad del Valle

Joven-Investigador(a) de la Universidad del Valle, Sede Palmira, Facultad de Ingeniería; estudiante del
Programa Académico de Tecnología en Alimentos.