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Product name: Canthaxanthin
Chemical formula: C40H52O2
CAS: 514-78-3
Product performance:
Cantharidin is used for colored items such as beverages, ice cream, sauces, tomato products, and meat products. deep purple crystal or crystalline powder.
Naturally found in crustaceans, fish, algae, eggs, blood, and millet. Lizhong uses modern biotechnology to extract natural.
Used for the coloring of beverages, ice cream, sauces, tomato products, meat products, etc., as an orange coloring agent.
The physical and chemical indicators and microbiological indicators are in line with the export standards of Japan, the United States, the European Union and other countries.
Canthaxanthin is widely used and generally recognized as safe (GRAS) for use as a food color additive. Extensively used in commercial food products like ketchup, Ocean Spray cranberry juice, etc. 30mg per 16 ounces of food or liquid ingested is the suggested dosage. Research does show that carotenoid supplements are not as well absorbed when taken alone on an empty stomach.
Canthaxanthin is a potent lipid-soluble antioxidant. The biological functions of canthaxanthin are related, at least in part, to its ability to function as an antioxidant (free radical scavenging/vitamin E sparing) in animal tissues.
