the effect of temperarure on beetroot

80 degrees the rate of increase in absorbance and therefore concentration of the red pigment released from the beetroot, actually stops increasing. The explanation for this is that the concentration gradient of the red pigment from the inside of the cells in the beetroot, compared to the distilled water outside containing red pigment, has been dramatically lowered. This gradient is eventually cancelled out, with the same amount of red pigment in the cell, compared to the outside of the cell. The reprucusions of this, is a stop in increase of the red pigment released from the beetroot at these high temperatures, hence meaning that the amount of red pigment released from the beetroot and therefor...