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The visible light spectrum lies in the range of 400 (violet) to 700 (red) nanometers (nm), Within this region, the eye is most sensitive to differences in color in the green-yellow region (520-580 nm). The color perceived by the eye from an illuminated object depends on the spectral composition of the light source, the chemical and physical characteristics of fan object, the nature of the back ground illumination and the spectral sensitivity ofthe eye viewing the object (Hahlbrock ef al., 1976) tole in our lives in textile, paint, cosmetics, ete etic and delightful function and can teristics. or mask Eally also, the color e our lives viz, red pulse rate and Concentrated ‘Monascus purpureus red yeast rice extracts are recommended as 9 dietary supplement for green color environment, and Orange increases Latin origin and fin the sense of later extended to ech as makeup. In BAzes, the word was iverse plant and animals or plants, Beside cells or cell Bs on tissues, or Muids. The modem word pigment has ‘century, meaning a 'small particles and uble in the applied to its colorant, ties (Ullmann, apply well to the Such as titanium but for soluble dyestuffs, usually organic compounds, the expressions dye, colorant or simply color (as in food cotors) is more adequate. The terms Pigment and color are usually applied to food coloring matters, sometimes indistinctly. The color of each pigment is associated to absorption or reflection of light in determined wavelengths, which is a characteristic of the pigment molecule. White light includes Photons with all possible wavelengths between 400 and 700 nm. When whit light is shined on the molecule, the molecule absorbs the colored photon. The absorbed color is not transmitted through the molecule or reflected by the molecule. This color has been taken away from white light, ie, subtracted from white light. The color we see, how a molecule appears, is what remains after the subtraction called the complement color. for reducing serum cholesterol and Mpoproteins. This is due to the presence of lovastatin as an ingredient in the pigments produced by Monascus. Wavel (Complement color] st | of Absorbed light | (what we see..) | 400 (violet) Greenish 450 (blue) | 500 (blue-green) | Red 570 (yellow-green)| Violet [580( Deep blue {600 (orange) Blue (650 (red) | Green | Food Technology and Color Acceptability of color in a given food in tur is influenced by as diverse factors as cultural, geographical and sociological aspects of the Population. Indeed, color and other eating habits are viewed as a type of culinary anthropology and indigenous to specific Febuary 205 O17

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