“…Some authors have studied the pigment content in jiotilla fruit and its microencapsulation by spraydrying. Soriano-Santos et al (2007) identified the red pigment of this fruit as betalains, which are used as natural colorants for red shades in the food industry (Bazaria and Kumar, 2017;Franco-Vásquez et al, 2023;Ravichandran et al, 2014;Stintzing et al, 2005). These authors identified that betalains from jiotilla pulp were composed of 119 ± 3.1 mg betaxanthins/kg fruit and 89 ± 6.5 mg betacyanins/kg fruit, these values represent the 19.7 ± 2.3 % of betacyanin and 41.8 ± 0.6 % of betaxanthins compared to beet, which is the only betalain-based commodity commercially used (Bazaria and Kumar, 2017;Ravichandran et al, 2014;Stintzing et al, 2005).…”