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The reason plants bother being colorful instead of just photosynthesizing in peace.
means A flavonoid is one of a large family of plant compounds responsible for many of the colors, flavors, and protective effects found in fruits, vegetables, flowers, and tea.
from Built from the Latin 'flavus,' meaning yellow, plus the chemistry-suffix '-oid,' meaning 'shaped like' — so literally 'yellow-ish thing.' The name comes from the first flavonoids chemists isolated, which were yellow pigments in plants; the term stuck even after the family turned out to include reds, purples, and colorless compounds too.
- name origin
- Latin flavus, meaning yellow, though most arent
- found in
- tea, wine, cocoa, onions, your smug green smoothie
- job
- UV sunscreen and pest repellent for the plant itself
- count
- over 6000 known types across the plant kingdom