Astaxanthin/Haematococcus pluvialis Extract 1% 2% 3% 5% 10%/CAS 472-61-7

Product Name:	Astaxanthin
Other Name:	Haematococcus pluvialis powder
Active Ingredient:	Astaxanthin
Specification:	Astaxanthin Powder1.5%, 2%, 2.5%, 3%, 3.5%, by UV / HPLC Astaxanthin oil 2%, 2.5%, 5%, 10%, by UV / HPLC
CAS No.:	472-61-7
Molecular Formula:	C40H52O4
Molecular Weight:	596.86
Botanical Source:	Haematococcus Pluvialis
Appearance:	Red Fine Powder
Application:	Medicine, Functional food products

Natural Astaxantin?

Astaxanthin, a member of the carotenoid family, is recognized as red-orange pigment found in marine and aquatic animals, such as salmon, salmon roe, and red sea bream. The red color of shellfish (e.g., shrimps and crabs), salmon roe, salmon, and the skin of red sea bream is often due to Astaxanthin.

However, Astaxanthin cannot be synthesized by animals and it must be provided in the diet. The seafood such as crabs and salmons mainly take Astaxanthin by eating krills and small pink shrimps that accumulate Astaxanthin in their body by food chain.

Astaxanthin is appreciated for its vivid red-orange color tone and the heat stability and it has been used broadly and industrially to impart the characteristic pink color to seafood such as farmed salmon and sea bream.

Recently, as studies progress, it has been clearly and unequivocally indicated that Astaxanthin's antioxidant properties are superior by 100-1,000 times to that of other commercial carotenoids as well as Vitamin E that does not allow the following antioxidant medicine. Moreover, increasing evidence suggests that Astaxanthin has extremely useful characteristics in scavenging of active oxygen, immunostimulation, cancer prevention and so on.

A demand for natural Astaxanthin is now emerging in the fast-growing health market as materials for functional health food, drinks and anti-aging cosmetics.

Function of haematococcus pluvialis powder:

1. Antioxidant Properties

In order to maintain healthy body conditions, it is said that it is effective to take substances to scavenge the excess active oxygen accumulated in our bodies. Carotenoids such as β-carotene and Vitamin E are known to have antioxidant functions.
It has been indicated that Astaxanthin in xanthophylls is much powerful antioxidant than other antioxidant materials.
Although once the in-body oxidation reaction by active oxygen starts, it spreads like a chain reaction. Astaxanthin has a function to inhibit the chain reaction and the harmful effects of active oxygen effectively.
When lipids by active oxygen and oxidized protein occur in cell walls (lipid bilayer structure) that control an important function of life cells, the whole cells will have a serious damage. If the oxygen degeneration occurs in sequences, it leads to the cause for various diseases and poor physical health conditions.
The main factor of the symptoms of aging is the accumulation of the decline of cell functions by oxidation degeneration. By taking powerful antioxidant materials such as Astaxanthin, it is said to be effective in recovering poor physical health conditions, aging prevention and endowment of resistance to diseases.
About Astaxanthin :( chemical and structural formulas)
Astaxanthin(astaxanthin) is a color pigment found by Professor Richard Kuhn in 1938. Its molecular structure is almost the same as β-carotene, but the both ends of hydrogen in cyclohexene parts are permuted as hydroxyl group (3 and 3') and carbonyl group (4 and 4'). There are 3 parts that display antioxidant effects in the molecular formula of Astaxanthin. Compared to the materials having antioxidant effects such asβ-carotene and Vitamin C, Astaxanthin has the formula that can expect antioxidant in many parts, thus various studies have been reported for its extremely powerful antioxidant effects.

2.Ehance Immune System
Astaxanthin has attracted attention for its strong antioxidant properties and many studies have been done for its physiological functions. The study reports suggest that Astaxanthin has potentials to defense bacteria and virus and to enhance immune competence in laboratory mouse experiments.
3.Improve Eyestrain, Muscle Fatigue, Athletic Capability
Study reports show the validity of Astaxanthin such as improvement of eyestrain and muscle fatigue by its strong antioxidant properties and superior in vivo transition properties that can easily pass through blood retinal barrier (BRB).

4.Inhibit Skin Aging (skin-whitening effect)
As everybody knows, strong sunlight causes skin flecks and wrinkles and accelerates skin aging. The exposure to ultra violet rays produce active oxygen in skin is thought to be the direct cause of the skin flecks and wrinkles. Study reports show the positive effects of Astaxanthin, such as protection from sunburn, wrinkles made by inhabitation of melanin formation, improvement of resilience and decrease of skin wrinkles by adding Astaxanthin in the external medicine for skin.

5.Inhibit and prevent diabetic syndrome
The animal experiment results show that taking Astaxanthin has positive effects on prevention and improvement of diabetic syndrome (diabetic nephropathy, diabetic cataract etc).

6.Anti-inflammatory Properties
In vivo and in vitro experiments report the anti-inflammatory properties of Astaxanthin.

7.Anti-helicobacter Pylori
Some experiments with laboratory mice show the Astaxanthin's inhibition of helicobacter pylori infection.

8.Bioactivation of Anticancer Activity
Astaxanthin's antioxidant properties for scavenging active oxygen have been already recognized and its inhibition of transplantation tumor and chemicals-induced caner are shown in animal experiments. Thus, Astaxanthin is expected its positive effects on the prevention of human cancer.

9.Arteriosclerosis Prevention(inhibit oxidation of LDL cholesterol)
Astaxanthin's inhibitory effects on LDL oxidation have been reported not only in vitro studies, but also in oral administration test on human. The test result shows that the time of LDL type oxidation was extended according to dosage.