Question

explain why spinach look green tomato are red potatoes are colourless​

Answer 1

spinach is from the leaf part of the plant. leaves have chloroplasts which make them green in colour. potatoes and tomatoes are the fruit part and hence the have different pigments. and show red and pototoes are light brown.

Answer 2

Carotenoid pigments, such as carotenes and xanthophylls, mix with light to provide colour to vegetables. Carotene pigment absorbs blue and indigo light to produce yellows and orange hues found in carrots, mangoes and yams. Lycopene pigments are similar to carotene and provide the red colours of tomatoes, guava, red grapefruit and papaya.

Flavonoids are yellow plant pigments found in lemons, oranges and grapefruit.

Betalain pigments consist of two subgroups: betacyanin and betaxanthin. Betaxyanin produces red-violet colour while betaxanthin produces yellow to orange.