Sentences with phrase «plant pigments which»

This tasty fruit is full of anthocyanosides, plant pigments which have powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

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Similar to the benefits you get from eating other berries, goji berries are loaded with beta - carotene (a pigment found in plants and fruits), which helps promote healthy skin and even acts like a natural skin cancer treatment.

Not only is it a concentrated source of chlorophyll, which is the green pigment given to many vegetables, it's also a very easy plant to grow.

Blood oranges red pigment contains anthocyanins, a «Super Antioxidant» which is what gives the color to fruits, plants and vegetables like berries and red wine.

My current favorite is the Phyto - Pigments Mascara by Juice Beauty, which is a natural plant - based mascara that offers all the smudge - proof, flake - free feathery lashes a new mama needs!

This plant pigment, which gives the tomato its red color, is also an antioxidant that has been linked in some studies to reduced incidence of heart disease and prostate cancer.

Vitamin B12 is the most complicated of an essential group of bio-pigments which includes haem, the red pigment in haemoglobin, and chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants.

Bottom line: many birds eat plants that are rich in compounds with a distinctive yellow pigmentation — which some birds can modify chemically to form the red pigment that becomes their calling card.

To maximize energy absorption for photosynthesis, especially when the suns have vastly different colors or if at least one of the suns is dim, plants — or, more correctly, their extraterrestrial analogs — may use one or more types of light - absorbing pigments that absorb across a broad range of wavelengths, which would tend to make the plant appear black or gray (main image).

In dim habitats, alien vegetation would need more photosynthetic pigments that capture radiation in a wider range of wavelengths, which would give them a dark appearance like many dark plants and flowers on Earth (more).

As proposed by Andrew Goldsworthy in 1987, cyanobacteria and later chloroplast - related protists and plants developed after microbes that used a purple pigment bacteriorhodopsin that absorbs green light dominated the oceans, and so the new photosynthetic cyanobacteria were forced to use the left - over light with chlorophyll that reflects green light, which was too complex to change even after purple - reflecting photosynthetic lifeforms were no longer dominant (Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist, September 10, 2010 — more on the evolution of photosynthetic life and plants on Earth).

I'm so happy it's summer so I can enjoy some of my favorite fruits - cherries and blackberries Cherries Cherries are rich in anthocyanins, a plant pigment that gives them their dark red color - which act as antioxidants, protection us from... [Read more...]

The beet's brilliant scarlet color is a testament to its high levels of beta - carotene, so you also get a large helping of this antioxidant plant pigment, which helps to scavenge destructive free radicals.

It belongs to a group of plant pigments (flavonoids), which give fruits, flowers, and vegetables their color.

Recently, we demonstrated that anthocyanins, which are pigments widespread in the plant kingdom, have the potency of anti-obesity in mice and the enhancement adipocytokine secretion and adipocyte gene expression in adipocytes.

Polyphenols belong to the group of compounds known as phytochemicals, which are antioxidants found in plant pigments.

If you take a moment to think back to your high school Biology class, you may remember that chlorophyll is the pigment which lends its green color to a variety of plants and algae.

The Hass fruit also provides flavonoids and carotenoids that are types of phytonutrients which protect plants and are responsible for providing them with pigments and vibrant color.

In nature, chlorophyll is a green pigment present in plants which allows the absorption of light from the sun.

Carotenoids are the mainly - yellow, orange & red fat - soluble pigments (such as carotene) which give color to plant parts (like carrots, sweet potatoes, ripe tomatoes and autumn leaves).

If you're already saying «oh, kale yes» to dark leafy greens on a daily basis, here's more good news: Besides being packed with nutrients, foods like kale, spinach, and collard greens, also contain lutein, which are carotenoids, a naturally occurring pigment in some plants, reports a study published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience last December.

Berry colors are due to natural plant pigments, many of which are polyphenols such as the flavonoids, anthocyanins, and tannins localized mainly in berry skins and seeds.

100 % PURE uses healthy, antioxidant rich pigments of Cocoa, Peaches, Goji Berries, and other nutrient dense plant or mineral pigments, instead of the commonly used FD&C / Lake colorants like Red Dye # 40, Blue Dye # 6, etc.; all of which can contain unhealthy heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury and more.

These ground - up pigments were mixed with a binder — water, animal fat, or plant juices — to make them into paint, which was applied to the rock with the fingers or with brushes made from animal tails.

Among the works included will be four new drawings made by Jasper Johns after his Catenary work, which was exhibited at Matthew Marks Gallery this past spring; the largest single drawing Roni Horn has ever made, executed in yellow - green pigment and collage; a suite of five new plant drawings and a collage of colored geometric forms by Ellsworth Kelly; two new folios by Brice Marden, each consisting of a group of seven drawings on handmade paper; and several large - scale, brightly - colored ink drawings by Charles Ray.