Developed in California and, like all Alpha Foods products, manufactured in Germany in state-of-the-art facilities according to the highest GMP, ISO and HACCP quality standards. Alpha Foods are known throughout Germany in specialist circles for the purity, potency and quality of herbal active ingredients. ✓ RECIPES WITH EXCLUSIVELY NATURAL INGREDIENTS: Natural compounds with excellent bioavailability. Alpha Foods only uses controlled raw materials from well-known manufacturers. All raw materials have a unique level of purity. ? THOROUGHLY COMBINED: Vitamin E is used in many food supplements and foods as an antioxidant, but as a fat-soluble vitamin it cannot easily be excreted by the body and can therefore risks accumulating in toxic concentrations in the body. We therefore deliberately refrain from adding any vitamin E. PREMIUM QUALITY: Having vegan softgel capsules instead of conventional capsules ensures 100% protection against contamination by oxygen and sunlight for a period of 12 months, and thus oxidation of astaxanthin. Unlike other manufacturers, we do not use beef or pork gelatine fillers, but instead use a gel capsule made exclusively from vegetable starch, coconut glycerine and biogenic osmosis water. Astaxanthin is a reddish pigment that belongs to a group of compounds known as carotenoids. It is a keto-carotenoid found naturally in certain algae. Our astaxanthin-rich oleoresin is extracted in Hawaii from the microalgae Haematococcus pluvialis, which is one of the richest sources of natural astaxanthin.