Re: fluorochromes in food

From: maciej simm (simm@cd4cd8.com)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 18:25:04 EST


Food itself is fairly fluorescent without any additives:
Dark meats contain a lot of mitochondria (NADPH) . Chlorophyll and 
carotenes are fairly fluorescent too. I am not sure what effect 
preparation(cooking) has on the fluorescence of the compounds but if you 
eat raw meat and fresh veggies you might just glow in the dark ;)

As far as drinking water, there are some calcium salts which are 
fluorescent but I can't recall the compounds nor their solubility.

Maciej


On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 04:03 PM, Jin Chung wrote:

> Does anyone knows whether there is any fluorecent dye that may be ok to 
> be used in food, drinking water but also fluoresce?
>  
> Jin
>  
>
> Jin Chung
> Postgraduate Research Student
> School of Civil and Environmental Engineeing
> University of New South Wales
> Sydney NSW 2052
> Australia
> Email: jin@civeng.unsw.edu.au



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