Matias, AnaBronze, RosárioSilva, JoanaNunes Nunes, Ana2024-05-172024-05-172024-03http://hdl.handle.net/10362/167505"Color plays a crucial role in shaping consumer food preferences, acceptability, and subsequent, selection. Despite the growing popularity of natural pigments in the food industry, several challenges hinder their widespread acceptance, namely regulatory restrictions, cost, and technical issues. These technical issues represent difficulties for industries aiming to replace synthetic colorants with natural options while meeting consumer demands.(...)"engnatural colorantsfood industryagricultural and food processing wastepigments extractiondownstream purificationencapsulationdoctoral thesis101772858