Violaxanthin

Vegetable diepoxide; the substance is one of the most important bioactive vegetable carotenoids. Violaxanthin is a yellow-orange to yellow-brown dye; Violaxanthin dyes plants, especially flowers and fruits and, like the xanthophylls diatoxanthin, diadinoxanthin, antheraxanthin and zeaxanthin, plays an important role in photosynthesis and in the photoprotection of plants. Violaxanthin is mainly found in the flowers and fruits of Viola tricolor the wild pansy

Vegetable diepoxide; the substance is one of the most important vegetable carotenoids. Violaxanthin is a yellow-orange to yellow-brown dye; Violaxanthin colours plants, especially flowers and fruits. The substance is mainly found in the flowers and fruits of Viola tricolores the wild pansy.

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