When cooking broccoli, you add lemon juice which turns the vegetable olive green. The chlorophyll pigment has come into contact with an acid and as a result the pigment has chemically changed to:

a. chlorophyllin
b. flavone
c. pheophytin
d. none of these, it remains the same


Answer: c. pheophytin

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