The resultant ?-crocin is a carotenoid pigment that may comprise more than 10 % of dry saffron's mass.
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The two esterified gentiobioses make ?-crocin ideal for colouring water-based and non-fatty foods such as rice dishes.
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Higher absorbances imply greater levels of crocin, picrocrocin and safranal, and thus a greater colouring potential and therefore strength per gram.
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This crocin is trans-crocetin di-( ?-D-sugars, a product results that is itself water-soluble.
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She has featured in over 100 advertising campaigns including brands such as Close Up toothpaste, Charmis cold cream, Rin, Clinic shampoo and Crocin.
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Saffron's main colourant is the flavonoid crocin; it has been discovered in the less tediously harvested & mdash; and hence less costly & mdash; gardenia fruit.
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Formerly there was also category IV, which was below category III . Samples are assigned categories by gauging the spice's crocin and picrocrocin content, revealed by measurements of specific spectrophotometric absorbance.
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The major active ingredient of saffron is the yellow pigment crocin 2 ( three other derivatives with different glycosylations are known ) containing a gentiobiose ( disaccharide ) group at each end of the molecule.
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These are the Delhi-based Rs500-crore SmithKline Beecham Consumer Healthcare, the Rs260-crore SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals in Bangalore and SmithKline Beecham Asia, a 100 per cent affiliate which owns the top-selling Crocin.
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But the biggest saffron cultivation in Italy is in San Gavino Monreale, Sardinia, where it is grown on 40 hectares, representing 60 % of Italian production; it too has unusually high crocin, picrocrocin, and safranal content.
