The flowers reminded Teeri, who has
studied plant pigments at the University of Helsinki, of blooms created in a landmark gene - engineering experiment some 30 years earlier.
Not exact matches
These
studies found that anthocyanins (the
plant pigments that give strawberries their colour and health benefits) are undetectable in commercially prepared baby food and that anthocyanins are only present in fresh or frozen strawberries — not processed ones!
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.
Turmeric — and curcumin, the beneficial
plant pigment it contains — has been the subject of 5600 different peer - reviewed, published medical
studies into its detoxifying effects.
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.