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| Microorganism | Pigment | Application in food |
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| Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous | Astaxanthin | Feed supplement for salmons, crabs, shrimps, chickens, and egg production |
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| Ashbya gossypii | Riboflavin | |
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| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | | Colorant in beverages, cakes, confectionaries, pudding, decoration of food items [11] |
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| Monascus sp. | Ankaflavin | Color supplement |
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| Penicillium oxalicum | Anthraquinone | |
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| Fusarium sporotrichioides | Lycopene | |
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| Haematococcus pluvialis | Astaxanthin | As animal feed, fish meal |
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| Saccharomyces neoformans | Melanin | |
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| Monascus sp. | Monascorubramin Rubropunctatin | |
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| Neospongiococcum excentricum | Zeaxanthin | Colorant for poultry and fish |
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| Cordyceps unilateralis | Naphtoquinone | |
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| Rhodotorula sp. | Torularhodin | |
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| Flavobacterium | Zeaxanthin | As an additive in poultry feed to increase yellow color of animal’s skin and eggyolk [12]
Colorant in cosmetic and food industry |
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| Bradyrhizobium sp. | Canthaxanthin | Impart color in farmed salmons |
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| Halobacterium sp. | Canthaxanthin | [13] |
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| Cantharellus cinnabarinus | Canthaxanthin | Poultry feeds and fish feeds |
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Brevibacterium KY-4313
Rhodococcus maris
(Mycobacterium brevicale) | Canthaxanthin | |
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| Corynebacterium michiganense | | [2] |
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| Agrobacterium auranticum | Astaxanthin | Food colourant [14] |
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| Paracoccus carotinifaciens | Astaxanthin | Food colourant [15] |
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| Mycobacterium lacticola | Astaxanthin | Fish feeds |
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Brevibacterium 10
Phafja rhodozyma
Peniophora sp. | |
[2] |
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| Streptomyces echinoruber | Rubrolone | Food colorant |
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| Paracoccus zeaxanthinifaciens | Zeaxanthin | Food colorant [16] |
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| Flavobacterium sp. | Zeaxanthin | Poultry feed and fish feed [2] |
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| Streptomyces coelicolor | Actinorhodin | Edible natural pigment and food colorant [17] |
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| Blakeslea trispora and Dunaliella salina | β-Carotene | Food colourant [2] |
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| Blakeslea trispora | Lycopene | Food colourant |
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| Streptomyces chrestomyceticus | | [2] |
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| Spongiococcum excentricum | Lutein | Poultry feeds |
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| Chlorella pyrenoidosa | | [2] |
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| Protomonas extorquens | Rhodoxanthin | [2] |
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