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ReviewJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Safety Evaluation of Fungal Pigments for Food Applications.

Rajendran Poorniammal, Somasundaram Prabhu, Laurent Dufossé, Jegatheesh Kannan

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Review in Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Regulation of melanin production in fungi.Frontiers in fungal biology · 2025
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  17. OMICS and Other Advanced Technologies in Mycological Applications.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Rajendran PoorniammalDepartment of Natural Resource Management, Horticultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Periyakulam 625 604, India.ORCID 0000-0003-2159-148X
Somasundaram PrabhuDepartment of Plant Protection, Horticultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Periyakulam 625 604, India.
Laurent DufosséLaboratoire de Chimie et Biotechnologie des Produits Naturels (CHEMBIOPRO), Université de La Réunion, ESIROI Agroalimentaire, 15 Avenue René Cassin, F-97400 Sainte-Clotilde, France.ORCID 0000-0001-7392-355X
Jegatheesh KannanDepartment of Natural Resource Management, Horticultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Periyakulam 625 604, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pigments play a major role in many industries. Natural colors are usually much safer when compared to synthetic colors and may even possess some medicinal benefits. Synthetic colors are economical and can easily be produced compared to natural colors. In addition, raw plant materials for natural colors are limited and season dependent. Microorganisms provide an alternative source for natural colors and, among them, fungi provide a wide range of natural colorants that could easily be produced cheaply and with high yield. Along with pigment, some microbial strains are also capable of producing a number of mycotoxins. The commercial use of microbial pigments relies on the safety of colorants. This review provides a toxicity evaluation of pigments from fungal origins for food application.

Indexed as

fungal pigmentsmycotoxinspigment toxicitysafety evaluation

Identifiers

PMID34575730
PMCPMC8466146

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