Extraction Improvement Of Capsicum Red Pigment

Capsicum red pigment is a natural pigment extracted, which is a good naturalactivity, non-toxic, non-irritating and no side effects, etc. It is benefit for human healthfunction to improve the anti-aging to disease. Because of the dual function ofnutrition and coloring, more and more people are interesting in this pigment to expandits constantly range of applications, becoming the most widely used natural colorants.Because of its nutritional value and pharmacological effects, the price of paprikaoleoresin capsicum is higher than the synthetic pigment several times. Red pigment iswidely used in food industry, cosmetic industry, pharmaceutical industry, and mainlyused as following:(1) juices, soft drinks, wine, pastries, chewing gum, snacks andcondiments juice food processing industry;(2) the date of application chemicalproducts industry;(3) used in the pharmaceutical industry, tablet coat and healthdrugs;(4) for cosmetic coloring;(5) feed additives.The main contents are as following:1. According to the properties of Xinjiang pigment pepper of phospholipids,fructose, high pectin content features, some efficient extraction agent and a series ofmixed solvents (6#solvent oil: acetone=1:3) were studied as the extractionsolvents.2. The stability conditions of capsanthin were discussed in this thesis.3. The results show that the methanol solution and its salt solution off the spicy isthe high red pigment production and the lowest color. However, ethanol solution andsalt solution off spicy is low of red pigment production and color value.4. The dried chilli and freeze-drying treatment for pepper has a protective effecton the color value.