date:Feb 25, 2020
anic times. These natural substances were used to color different products, such as textiles and also food; for example, the cochinita pibil in which the achiote is used as a dye.
Jorge Luis Araujo Snchez, a graduate student in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at CICY, explained that betalains are specialized metabolites, synthesized by certain species belonging to the order of Caryophyllales, such as beet, cactus, amaranth and pitaya.