Indigoidine – Nature Blue Dyes
Indigoidine | Natural Blue Dye & Colorant
Indigoidine is a bacterial natural product with antioxidant and antimicrobial activities. Its bright blue color resembles the industrial dye indigo, thus representing a new natural blue dye that may find uses in industry.
Hangzhou Biopak Co., Ltd. use a innovative biosysthesis method to produce a natural, safe deep blue dye that retains its brightness.
BACKGROUND
Dyes are commonly used in food/beverages, drugs, cosmetics, clothing, paper and other consumerproducts. While it’s most important to keep unpurified dyes out of food and drinks,consumers are increasingly aware of synthetic ingredients found in everydayproducts and look for natural substitutes whenever possible. With growing concernover meeting consumer demand, many companies are ready to replace some or allof their synthetic chemical-based dyes, especially blue, with natural dyes. Indigoidine a blue tint originally synthesized from a bacterialstrain that does not produce significant quantities of indigoidine and mimickedthe organism’s biosynthetic machinery inside a heterologous host cell: E. coli.These mostly harmless bacteria can produce significantly higher yields of the bluepigment and do so without using synthetic compounds that could pose a threat tohuman health and the environment.
BENEFITS
- The blue color of the indigoidine compound is bright and sustainable.
- As a natural dye, it has promising health benefits as an antioxidant and antimicrobial actor.
- indigoidine, as natural blue dye is safe to use in food and drinks. it is dimeric of L-glutamine, more like pipetides two biosynthesised from L-glutamine.
- Biodegradable
APPLICATIONS
Indigoidine natural blue dye is a promising alternative to the synthetic dyes used tocolored jeans, leather, food, beverages, cosmetics, drug, paper.