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Production of Pigments

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There is a marked trend towards the use of natural additives in the food and feed industry. In the case of natural pigments, there is a renewed interest in traditional technologies for the production of pigments such as carmine (from insects), annatto and curcuma (from plants) or Monascus (from a fungus). There has also been a lot of research on new alternatives, in the last few decades. Because of the intensive metabolite production that is possible in bioprocesses, there is a high interest in pigment production by fermentation. This chapter describes in brief the importance of natural pigments, presents some of the commercially successful, discusses the potential of other microorganisms for pigment production by SSF, and finally describes aspects of the production of Monascus by solid-state fermentation.

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  1. Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology Division, Federal University of Paraná, CEP 81530-970 Curitiba-PR, Brazil

    Júlio Cesar de Carvalho, Carlos Ricardo Soccol & Adenise Lorenci Wojciechowski

  2. Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology, Trivandrum-695 019, India

    Sumathy Babitha & Ashok Pandey

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  1. Biotechnology Division National Institute for Interdisciplinary, Science & Technology, (formerly Regional Research Laboratory), Trivandrum-695019, India

    Ashok Pandey

  2. Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology Division, Federal University of Paraná, CEP 81530-970, Curitiba-PR, Brazil

    Carlos Ricardo Soccol

  3. Laboratoire de Génie Chimique et Biochimique (LGCB), CUST-Université Biaise Pascal, 24, avenue des Landais, B.P. 206, F-63174, Aubière Cedex, France

    Christian Larroche

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de Carvalho, J.C., Soccol, C.R., Babitha, S., Pandey, A., Wojciechowski, A.L. (2008). Production of Pigments. In: Pandey, A., Soccol, C.R., Larroche, C. (eds) Current Developments in Solid-state Fermentation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75213-6_15

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