Orange (colour) and absorb mostly greenish-blue light. (See also shades of orange). Other orange pigments include: The orange colour of carrots, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, oranges, and many other fruits and vegetables comes from carotenes, a type of photosynthetic pigment. These pigments convert the light energy that the plants absorb from the sun into chemical energy for the plants' growth. The carotenes themselves take their name from the carrot. Autumn leaves also get their orange colour from carotenes. When the weather turns cold and production of green chlorophyll stops, the orange colour remains. Before the 18th century, carrots from Asia were usually purple,
Gardner color scale the liquid. This procedure isn't extremely accurate due to variations of observers, illumination and to some extent the standards themselves. Gardner Color can also be measured by a dual beam xenon flash spectrophotometer, for example the ColorQuest XT. Spectrophotometers measure the percent transmittance of the product and automatically calculate and provide the Gardner color number using illuminant C and 2º observer. Gardner color scale Gardner Color Scale is a one-dimensional scale to measure the shade of the color yellow. Colors of transparent liquids have been studied visually since the early 19th century. Changes in color can indicate contamination or impurities