Product Information

Latin name:Astaxanthin

Extracted part: Shell

Active ingredient : Natural Astaxanthin

Specification : 4%,5%

Appearance :  Red or Dark red

Package details : 25kg/drum with two plastic-bags inside or as your requirement

Background:

Water Soluble Astaxanthin can be made from carotene i the chemical method. This is the main sources among the fish feed, The companies who have the ability of production is the BASF, DSM and the newly into company around the world. Other methods are: add shrimp waste or shrimp green element in yeast. Natural shrimp meal mainly comes from the rain green born describes red.

What is Astaxanthin?

Astaxanthin is found in microalgae, yeast, salmon, trout, krill, shrimp, crayfish, crustaceans, and the feathers of some birds. It provides the red color of salmon meat and the red color of cooked shellfish. Professor Basil Weedon's group was the first to prove the structure of astaxanthin by synthesis, in 1975.

Astaxanthin, unlike several carotenes and one other known carotenoid, is not converted to vitamin A in the human body. Like other carotenoids, astaxanthin has self-limited absorption orally and such low toxicity by mouth that no toxic syndrome is known. It is an antioxidant with a slightly lower antioxidant activity in some model systems than other carotenoids. However, in living organisms the free-radical terminating effectiveness of each carotenoid is heavily modified by its lipid solubility, and thus varies with the type of system being protected.

While astaxanthin is a natural nutritional component, it can also be used as a food supplement. The supplement is intended for human, animal, and aquaculture consumption. The commercial production of astaxanthin comes from both natural and synthetic sources.

Function:

1. With the function of natural food pigment, it has rich nutritional value and good coloring effect;

2. It has excellent oxidation resisting activity, in terms of free radical scavenging activity is 1000 times higher than the natural VE;

3. It can prevent arteriosclerosis and relative diseases;

4. Can be used as anticancer activity to strengthen the functions of immune system;

5. Enhance the health of central nervous system;

6. Intensify energy metabolism of organism.

Where will Astaxanthin be used for?

1. Treating Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and “brain attack” (stroke),

2. High cholesterol, and an eye condition called age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

3. Preventing cancer.

4. The most powerful Natural anti-oxidant.

5. Applied directly to the skin for protection against sunburn.