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Achiote (Bixa orellana L.) : a natural source of pigment and vitamin E

Raddatz-Mota, Denise; Pérez Flores, Laura J.; Carrari, Fernando; Mendoza Espinoza, José Alberto; Díaz de León-Sánchez, Fernando; Pinzón-López, Luis L.; Godoy-Hernández, Gregorio; Rivera Cabrera, Fernando (Springer, 2017-05)

Commercialization of agricultural products, including seeds and its derived products, represents an important economic source for developing countries. Natural colorants obtained from the seeds of achiote plant (annatto) ...
Chemical characterization and quantification of the pigment extraction yield of seven mexican accessions of Bixa orellana = Caracterización química y cuantificación del rendimiento de extracción de pigmento en siete accesiones mexicanas de Bixa orellana

Raddatz-Mota, Denise; Pérez Flores, Laura J.; Carrari, Fernando; Insani, Ester Marina; Asis, Ramón; Mendoza Espinoza, José Alberto; Díaz de León-Sánchez, Fernando; Rivera Cabrera, Fernando (2016)

Achiote (Bixa orellana) is a plant used for obtaining a natural dye rich on carotenoids (mainly bixin and norbixin); it is also the plant species with the highest content of tocotrienols in nature. In the present work, the ...