It has been shown that adding astaxanthin to the feed can improve the skin and muscle colour of marine organisms and thereby increase their commercial and ornamental value.
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Demand was " particularly buoyant " for astaxanthin, B-complex vitamins, citric acid and antioxidants vitamin E, beta-carotene and vitamin C.
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Rainbow trout raised to have pinker flesh from a diet high in astaxanthin are sometimes sold in the U . S . with labeling calling them " steelhead ".
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Astaxanthin is also commercially collected from shrimp processing waste . 12, 000 pounds of wet shrimp shells can yield a 6 8 gallon astaxanthin / triglyceride oil mixture.
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Astaxanthin is also commercially collected from shrimp processing waste . 12, 000 pounds of wet shrimp shells can yield a 6 8 gallon astaxanthin / triglyceride oil mixture.
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Its carotenoid content has been investigated and the following substances have been found : ?-, ?, ?-carotene, zeaxanthin, diatoxanthin, mutatoxanthin and astaxanthin.
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Natural astaxanthin is generally recognized as safe ( GRAS ) by the FDA, but as a food coloring in the United States it is restricted to use in animal food.
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For example, there are only two of these blue astaxanthin-proteins in the jellyfish, " Velella velella ", contains only about 100 carotenoids per complex.
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When the crab is cooked, the alpha-crustacyanin breaks down, leaving only the astaxanthin, which turns the crab to a red-orange or a hot pink color.
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Director of the institutes, Avigad Vonshak, made headlines for his discovery, together with Prof . Sammy Boussiba ( also of the institutes ) of astaxanthin accumulation in green algae.
