Cactus fruits

Betalains have recently regained importance due to continuing interest in natural food colorants. Currently, red beet is the only food source commercially exploited, although amaranth, Swiss chard, yellow beet, and cactus fruit represent promising... 

The betalains are confined to ten families of the order Caryophyllales20 The only foods containing betalains are red beet (Beta vulgaris), chard (B. vulgaris), cactus fruit (Opuntia ficus-indica) and pokeberries (Phytolacca americana). They also occur in the poisonous mushroom Amanita muscaria but this is not a normal food source. The importance of the betalains as colorants is confined to preparations from red beet. 

Grape skins, elderberries Red beets, chard, cactus fruits ranthus Modified sugar... 

Betalains occur in centrospermae, mainly in red beets, but also in some cactus fruits and mushrooms. They consist of red-violet betacyanins 540 nm) and yellow betaxanthins (Alliax 480 nm). About 50 betalains have been identified. The major betacyanin is betanin (Formula 9.14), glucoside of betanidin, which accounts for... 

Cactus fruits Cactus flowers Ipomoea flowers Tree flux... 

In this section, I will examine endemism within the cactus stem necrosis commimity, which has been sampled far more extensively than either the cactus flower or cactus fruit necrosis communities. The first evidence for endemism I present is the taxonomic makeup of the community. The basis for this overview is a compilation of data from two sources 3451 strains isolated by me (with the help acknowledged below) and 5159 strains isolated by Dr William T. Starmer and his co-workers (Starmer et al., 1990). The total of 8610 strains includes only strains that belong to described taxa (species and varieties) or to known taxa that have not been published as ofyet. Almost all come from North and South America, the Caribbean Islands and Austraha. 

Food-drug interactions Prickly pears Prickly pears or cactus fruit Opuntia, Cactaceae) may reduce blood glucose concentrations, especially when it is processed [65" ]. 

Opuntia (cactus fruit, prickly pear) and glipizide, 696 oseltamivir and sotalol, 305 oxcarbazepine and clarithromycin, 107, 409 oxcarbazepine and phen5ftoin, 109... 

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