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Biopigment Production in Food & Textiles

This document discusses biopigment production and its applications in the food and textile industries. Biopigments can be produced by microorganisms like bacteria, fungi, and microalgae by growing them on organic media. These natural biopigments provide alternatives to synthetic dyes that use hazardous chemicals and cause safety and waste issues. While biopigments have advantages, developing low-cost production processes and isolation procedures is still needed. The biomass leftover after pigment extraction can also be used to generate energy. For a biopigment to succeed commercially, it must be acceptable to regulators and the market while requiring a reasonable capital investment.

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Biopigment Production in Food & Textiles

This document discusses biopigment production and its applications in the food and textile industries. Biopigments can be produced by microorganisms like bacteria, fungi, and microalgae by growing them on organic media. These natural biopigments provide alternatives to synthetic dyes that use hazardous chemicals and cause safety and waste issues. While biopigments have advantages, developing low-cost production processes and isolation procedures is still needed. The biomass leftover after pigment extraction can also be used to generate energy. For a biopigment to succeed commercially, it must be acceptable to regulators and the market while requiring a reasonable capital investment.

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Biopigment Production and Its Application in Food & Textile Industry

Touseef Ahmaed Ansari1 Javed Ahmed1 .


Department Harcourt Butler * Email ID:

M. Tech. of Biochemical Engineering & Food Technology, Technological Institute, Kanpur, India. [Link]@[Link]

Abstract The production of chemically derived pigments requires hazardous chemicals, creating worker safety concerns and causing generation hazardous wastes. The analysis and negative consideration of synthetic food and textile dyes make a strong interest towards natural colouring alternatives. Some artificial colours, such as azorubrin or tartrazin may cause allergies, encouraged their substitution by natural colour. Biopigment production achieved by plants, microalgae and microorganisms (fungi, yeasts, bacteria) etc. Microorganisms produce the molecules of carotenoids, melanins, flavins, quinones, and more specifically monascins, violacein or indigo. Micro algal produces molecules of phycocyanin, C-phycocyanin and allophycocyanin. Plant produces molecules of saffron, anthocyanin and flavonol. Biopigment producing bacterial strains includes Serratia marcescens, Streptomyces coelicolor, Chromobacterium violaceum, Thialkalivibrio versutus, Escherichia coli, and Nocardia globerula etc. Biopigment producing fungal species includes Curvularia lunata, Aspergillus sp., Monascus purpureus, Helminthosporium sp., Penicillium cyclopium and Blakeslea trispora etc. Biopigment producing micro algal species includes Spirulina platensis, Spirulina platensis var lonar, Dunaliella salina and Chlorella sp. etc when grown on organic media. Various growth mediums can be used for their cultivation. However there is a need to develop new low cost process for the production of pigments as well as during the isolation procedure. The use of agro-industrial residues would provide a profitable means of reducing substrate cost. Advantage of biopigment includes the reduction of the use of toxic materials and after extraction of the dye, the biomass can be used for energy generation (methane generation). The success of any pigment produced by fermentation depends upon its acceptability in the market, regulatory approval, and the size of the capital investment required bringing the product to market. Key words: Biopigments, Microorganisms, Food, Textile.

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