[Latin Name] Haematococcus Pluvialis

[Plant Source] from China

[Specifications]1% 2% 3% 5%

[Appearance] Dark red Powder

[Particle size] 80 Mesh

[Loss on drying] ≤5.0%

[Heavy Metal] ≤10PPM

[Storage] Store in cool & dry area, keep away from the direct light and heat.

[Shelf life] 24 Months

[Package] Packed in paper-drums and two plastic-bags inside.

[Net weight] 25kgs/drum

Brief Introduction

Astaxanthin is a natural nutritional component, it can be found as a food supplement. The supplement is intended for human, animal, and aquaculture consumption.

Astaxanthin is a carotenoid. It belongs to a larger class of phytochemicals known as terpenes, which are built from five carbon precursors; isopentenyl diphosphate and dimethylallyl diphosphate . Astaxanthin is classified as a xanthophyll (originally derived from a word meaning “yellow leaves” since yellow plant leaf pigments were the first recognized of the xanthophyll family of carotenoids), but currently employed to describe carotenoid compounds that have oxygen-containing moities, hydroxyl or ketone , such as zeaxanthin and canthaxanthin. Indeed, astaxanthin is a metabolite of zeaxanthin and/or canthaxanthin, containing both hydroxyl and ketone functional groups. Like many carotenoids, astaxanthin is a colorful, lipid-soluble pigment. This colour is due to the extended chain of conjugated (alternating double and single) double bonds at the centre of the compound. This chain of conjugated double bonds is also responsible for the antioxidant function of astaxanthin (as well as other carotenoids) as it results in a region of decentralized electrons that can be donated to reduce a reactive oxidizing molecule.

Function:

1.Astaxanthin is a powerful antioxidant and may protect against oxidative damage to body tissues.

2.Astaxanthin can improve the immune response by increasing the number of antibody producing cells.

3.Astaxanthin is a potential candidate to treat neurodegenerative disease such as Alzhimer and Parkinson diease.

4.Astaxanthin dan reduce UVA-light damage to skin such as sunburn, inflammation, ageing and skin cancer.

Application

1.When applied in pharmaceutical field, astaxanthin powder has the good function of antineoplastic;

2.When applied in health food field, astaxanthin powder is used as food additives for pigment and health care;

3.When applied in cosmetic field, astaxanthin powder has the good function of antioxidant and anti-aging;

4.When applied in animal feeds field, astaxanthin powder is used as animal feed additive to impart coloration, including farm-raised salmon and egg yolks.

https://www.euronews.com/ It looks like a restaurant kitchen, but it is an advanced research institute on human nutrition in Aberdeen, Scotland. Food is served to study volunteers, not customers. And for this particular study, dishes were cooked up to make volunteers eat less, but still feel happily full.

“The types of foods that I ate were keeping me fuller for longer. So I was not thinking about snacking and things like that. So that has been a good thing,” says volunteer Gordon Irvine.

The study is the cornerstone of a European Union Research project aimed at identifying natural food ingredients that regulate appetite by enhancing satiation and reducing hunger, thus fighting against overeating and obesity.

“We are talking about protein ingredients, herbal ingredients, types of carbohydrates, certain starches, and we are talking about soluble fibres as well. And we use this in a variety of foods. We use them in baked goods, biscuits, in smoothes, yoghurts, sodas, waters… a range of industrial food products that people can easily incorporate into their daily eating pattern,” says psychologist Jason Halford of the University of Liverpool, a member of the EU-funded Satin project.

Volunteers in the project are offered 3 meals a day during 52 days. In exchange they let researchers know how their bodies react to the mysterious ingredients added to the recipes.

Researchers want in particular to understand how those ingredients affect appetite control, fat evolution and weight management in the volunteers’ bodies.

And the first results are promising.

“It works well for me. The food provided helped keep me full. It saves you snacking in between meals. I lost weight, so it certainly worked for me,” says volunteer Carol Abel.

The researchers´ next step is to try to understand how some food ingredients, like soluble fibres, fill us up quicker than others. Meticulous laboratory work has already provided some tips.

“Some of these fibres will make you feel full just because of their physical presence in the gut. And the human body has pressure sensors in the gut that confirm that feel of satiation. But there is also a hypothesis on the role of products from the microbial activity. Some of the acids that the microbes produce interact with receptors on the gut’s surface and elsewhere in the body and that can affect hormone production. And those hormones are known to have an effect on how hungry we feel,” says microbiologist Harry J. Flynt of the University of Aberdeen.

But the final expected outcome of the research is not only to fight against overweight and obesity in Europe, scientists say.

They also hope that their knowledge will eventually help them to contribute to the development of innovative foods and novel food processing technologies to be offered to European consumers soon.

“We are starting to model what the ingredients that we are testing are doing within the human gut. Once we have the results of those tests, we will go back to the laboratory, develop new ingredients, and we will take them back into new clinical trials. Our aim is to have commercial partners to produce products that people will really want to consume on a day-to-day basis. Otherwise the foods we are aiming to produce would be useless, they would not have any practical value,” says Jason Halford.

“This food was very, very nice. It tasted very, very good. There was no lack of flavour, nor any problem in the textures or nothing like that. It was very enjoyable food. So if in the future there is a product developed that has the same flavour, textures, looks the same and feels the same, of course I will volunteer to try it,” says Gordon Irvine.

Researchers hope to see these innovative, satiating foods being served on Europe´s dinner tables from 2016.

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