Research Status and Application Development Prospect of Tea Pigment
Tea pigment is widely used in the fields of food,medicine,and textile printing and dyeing due to its anti-cancer,flame retardant,anti-oxidation,anti-ultraviolet,anti-inflammatory,hypolipidemic properties and other functions,as well as good coloring performance.This paper reviews the structure and properties of tea pigment,as well as its extraction and purification processes,discusses the potential application prospect of tea pigment in the food,medical,and textile fields and proposes that the exploration of the separation and specific structure of theaflavins,thearubigins,and theabrownins,and the stability of tea pigment is the main research direction.
tea pigmentextraction and purificationtextile printing and dyeing