Emerging Challenges in Biopigment Food Applications

Abstract

The food industry gave more impetus to natural pigments rather than synthetic products eyeing their bioactive, biodynamic properties. Apart from their coloring abilities, natural pigments conferring health benefits as an antioxidant, anti-cancer, and anti-inflammatory agents healthily replace any artificial colorants on a willful contest. Most synthetic pigment products get overlooked and ignored from food and or cosmetics circle usages due to their inherent virtual toxicity that is unsafe for humans in the long run. Eco-friendly sustainability on factory-scale production of natural pigments without any eco climatic seasonal restrictions and the hard-bred field-proven biotechnical processes perfection and maturity, peer industrial demands for biomass usage and proximity at ease for available markets project a strong case for biorefinery extraction models. The growing surge in publications in a decade underline the increasing demand for natural pigments. The multi-disciplinary integrative product combination within singular valorization chain sparks conventional or nonconventional methods of extraction of target pigments. The biorefinery approach that diminishes waste production mitigates environmental impacts and cutting costs associated to upstream and or downstream processes serving towards a bioeconomic promising pathway for reaching a sustainable economy in pigment-productive bioeconomic chains.