Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A brown carotenoid pigment, C40H60O6, found in brown algae and chrysophytes.
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- noun organic chemistry A
carotenoid pigment found in thechloroplasts ofbrown algae .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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This protein is found in white adipose tissue — belly fat — and that means fucoxanthin might be particularly effective at shrinking oversized guts, the researchers hypothesized, informs Forbes.
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According to Reuters, Miyashita and colleagues also found that fucoxanthin has "strong" anti-diabetes effects by promoting the synthesis of DHA in the liver.
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The brown colour of the seaweed is due to the brown pigment fucoxanthin overriding the green pigment chlorophyll.
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Rhodophyta contains the pigment phycobilin, giving it a red color while the group Chrysophaceae contain the pigment fucoxanthin which gives them a golden color.
Phytoplankton 2008
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Both pigments are used in the photosynthesis of light, fucoxanthin improving the process when the algae is covered by water.
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They found that fucoxanthin, the brown pigment in the seaweed, promoted a 5 percent to 10 percent weight loss in mice and rats by shrinking abdominal fat.
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Animals fed fucoxanthin plus soybean oil showed an increase in DHA levels in the liver, comparable to that seen with fish oil supplementation, they note.
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• Brown algae—kelp, wakame—dominate temperate waters and supplement their chlorophyll with a group of carotenoid pigments, notably brownish fucoxanthin.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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• Brown algae—kelp, wakame—dominate temperate waters and supplement their chlorophyll with a group of carotenoid pigments, notably brownish fucoxanthin.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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These results, taken together with previous studies with fucoxanthin, suggest that it may be useful in chemoprevention of other human malignancies.
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