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