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What is astaxanthin? It keeps flamingos nice and vermilion

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What is astaxanthin? It keeps flamingos nice and vermilion

16 January 2017 by Margarita Leave a Comment

  What is astaxanthin, this bizarre sounding thing? Astaxanthin is a king among the antioxidants. It belongs to carotenoids, the same group where famous beta-carotene resides. It’s a pigment. Astaxanthin gives a striking vermilion (red-orange) colour to wild salmon, funny large-eyed critters like shrimp and krill, majestic flamingos, a few algae, yeast. According to the 2015 … [Read more…]

Posted in: Nature's remedies Tagged: antioxidant, astaxanthin, carotenoid, free radical, oxidative stress

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