Re: HYB: pigment extraction

Neil asked:
<So, Linda, who is going to clean up your kitchen when you get through?>

<LOL> - I was wondering the same thing when I walked into the kitchen
this morning!  What a mess - took time out from playing to clean up and
have moved on to planting burrito'd seeds in pots.... creating a
different mess in another room <plus> a mess outdoors.

<I want to refer back to something Chuck Chapman pointed out in a
Lycopene
                   discussion some time ago.  In Tomatoes, the "red" we
see is a result of two
                   pigments (at least two, I might suggest)--one of
which is the orange-red
                   Lycopene, the other something resulting in an
expressed color much redder than
                   Lycopene alone.  He didn't say what, but my guess is
that it is a red
                   anthocyanin.>

==== Neil, So Lycopene looks orange-red, not red?  Doesn't look like
there is any pigment in the alcohol/water layer, which implies that it
isn't a red anthocyanin from the tomato, if all anthocyanins are water
soluble. The sludge (which I filtered out re: Chuck's suggestion) is
red, so is something soluble in neither alcohol, water, or oil...

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