Study on the extraction and stability of tea stem pigment
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the tannase-assisted extraction of tea stem pigment from waste tea stem, after which the stability of the purified pigment was determined and analyzed.
Design/methodology/approach
The extracting process was optimized using the response surface methodology (RSM) approach. Material-liquid ratio, temperature and time were chosen as variables and the absorbance as a response. The stability of the tea stem pigment at the different conditions was tested and analyzed.
Findings
The optimized extraction technology was as follows: material-liquid ratio 1:20 g/ml, temperature 50°C and time 60 min. The stability test results showed that tea stem pigment was sensitive to oxidants, but the reducing agents did not affect it. The tea stem pigment was unstable under strong acid and strong alkali and was most stable at pH 6. The light stability was poor. Tea stem pigment would form flocculent precipitation under the action of Fe2+ or Fe3+ and be relatively stable in Cu2+ and Na2+ solutions. The tea stem pigment was relatively stable at 60°C and below.
Originality/value
No comprehensive and systematic study reports have been conducted on the extraction of pigment from discarded tea stem, and researchers have not used statistical analysis to optimize the process of tannase-assisted tea stem pigment extraction using RSM. Additionally, there is a lack of special reports on the systematic study of the stability of pigment extracted from tea stem.
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Acknowledgements
This work is supported by the Opening Project of China National Textile and Apparel Council Key Laboratory of Natural Dyes, Soochow University, (SDHY2119), Science and Technology program of Gansu Province under Grant (1606RJZA096).
Credit authorship contribution statement: Xuemei Wang: Writing − original draft, Writing − review & editing, Software, Methodology, Project administration. Jixiang He: Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing − review & editing. Yue Ma: Methodology, Data curation, Writing − review & editing. Hao Wang: Formal analysis, Resources, Software. Dehong Ma: Supervision, Writing − review & editing. Dongdong Zhang: Methodology, Investigation, Data curation. Hudie Zhao: Investigation, Visualization, Supervision.
Declaration of competing interest: The authors declare that there are no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Citation
Wang, X., He, J., Ma, Y., Wang, H., Ma, D., Zhang, D. and Zhao, H. (2024), "Study on the extraction and stability of tea stem pigment", Pigment & Resin Technology, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/PRT-03-2024-0035
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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