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Why do lobsters turn red? (when we cook them)

Chemistry For Your Life

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What Happens When We Eat Blueberries?

Lobsters have a pigment in part of its diet. The pigment gets into their skin and then goes into their shells, it becomes bondye with proteins. So what if when we ate blueberries, our skin turned blue, like veruca salt? Oh, yes. That's what happens to them. They eat plants and their shells turn red. Yea, i mean, there isat can't happen with us with a like what is it like carrots and tomatoes? Some of you asan ind sen am out of em, that it turns yo orange. E, but so they're oy so that, you'll ot of this stuf thathas his pigment in it.

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