{"id":4709,"date":"2014-05-20T14:56:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2014-05-20T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T14:56:25","slug":"market-scope-of-astaxanthin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/market-scope-of-astaxanthin.html","title":{"rendered":"Market Scope of Astaxanthin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a0demand for natural astaxanthin is now emerging in the multi-billion dollar nutraceutical market.<\/p>\n<p>The global astaxanthin market is estimated at about $257 million, most of which is used in fish coloration (2009\u00a0data; estimates by BCC\u00a0Research\u00a0for astaxanthin market size are however lower). The human uses market is growing and estimated at about $27-$40 million. Most astaxanthin is derived from the\u00a0algae, H pluvialis, which is commonly consumed by fish and crustaceans \u2013 like salmon and lobster \u2013 and is responsible for their pink coloration.<\/p>\n<p>Astaxanthin is principally consumed by the salmon feed industry. The annual worldwide aquaculture market of this pigment is estimated at US$ 200 million with an average price of US$ 2500\/kg.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/astaxanthin.company\/blog\/market-scope-of-astaxanthin\/\">http:\/\/astaxanthin.company\/blog\/market-scope-of-astaxanthin\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a0demand for natural astaxanthin is now emerging in the multi-billion dollar nutraceutical market. The global astaxanthin market is estimated at about $257 million, most of which is used in fish coloration (2009\u00a0data; estimates by BCC\u00a0Research\u00a0for astaxanthin market size are however lower). The human uses market is growing and estimated at about $27-$40 million. Most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae","category-algae-non-fuel-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4710,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions\/4710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}