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Growth in the Functional Food & Beverage Market

July 2019

Have Your Astaxanthin & Eat It Too Functional foods and beverages provide added biological or health benefits that go beyond basic nutrition. This nutritional category includes products with naturally occurring functional components (ex. orange juice containing vitamin C), foods enhanced with functional components (ex. eggs enriched with astaxanthin from hens fed H. pluvialis algae), and […]

Red cooked lobster

Lobsters and Astaxanthin

January 2017

Consider the Lobster Next time you have the opportunity to enjoy some lobster for dinner, consider that bright red color . It comes from astaxanthin that the lobster has synthesized using carotenoids supplied from a diet of small crustaceans and mollusks. But why is the lobster not red in nature? The lobster uses a protein […]

a plate of salmon

1.6 Servings of Salmon a day, or AstaReal®

December 2016

Making Healthy Choices With AstaReal® Many nutrients are not easy to obtain from diet alone, including astaxanthin. For example, to get the recommended 6mg of astaxanthin every day, you would need to consume a lot of wild caught raw salmon: 1.6 servings of Sockeye, 2.9 servings of Coho, or 12 servings of King daily. That […]

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