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- Highly efficient and cost-effective
- High bioavailability
- Outstanding stability during storage and feed production
- Color can be adjusted to meet your expectations
Animal Nutrition
Lucantin® Pink CWD: Pigmentation of fish and crustaceans
Everybody's favorite color for everybody's favorite food.
Fish, like salmon, trout and crustaceans, for example, use red carotenoid pigments for camouflage and communication. Fish lovers prefer their favorite food colored a delicious pink. Lucantin® Pink is a highly efficient way to achieve perfect pigmentation in aquaculture.
Your Lucantin® benefits at a glance
- Reliable pigmentation helping you achieve the shade your customers expect
- Easy handling due to comfortable packaging sizes and product properties
- You benefit from our decades of experience in carotenoid formulation development
Please note that not all BASF animal nutrition products are authorized for use in all countries or for all purposes. Consult your local regulatory authorities or contact your BASF representative for more information.
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Astaxanthin is a feed additive which intensifies the pigmentation of fish and crustaceans. The animals are reliant on astaxanthin intake since they cannot synthesize the carotenoid themselves. In the wild, astaxanthin is produced by plants, bacteria, algae and fungi, and from these organisms it is transferred up the food chain and stored in organisms that have the ability to do so. In culture situations where fish and crustaceans are not able to obtain enough “wild pigment” to satisfactorily pigment their tissues, astaxanthin preparations can be incorporated into the formulated feed.
Lucantin® Pink CWD is an astaxanthin powder produced with strongly protective microencapsulation technology. This enables us to deliver products with high flowability, stability in feed production, bioavailability and performance.
Lucantin® Pink CWD is a cold-water dispersible formulation suitable for pre- and post-extrusion applications.
Lucantin® Pink CWD is offered as powder, and Lucantin® Pink NXT is offered as beadlet.
| Product name | Form | Application | Additional Information | Packaging | Article number |
| Lucantin® Pink CWD | Powder | Aquaculture | 10% astaxanthin, dispersible in water |
20 kg bag in box 200 kg big bag 400 kg big bag |
51027961 51565806 56589728 |
Lucantin® Pink CWD is an astaxanthin powder used in aquaculture for pink-red pigmentation of fish and crustaceans.
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