Episode 27: Astaxanthin
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Hi, I'm Shane from Path Forward Formulator. Welcome to our 3minute Thursday series where we demonstrate the features of our app by building a formula in 3 minutes or less. If you have not already had a demo of our award-winning platform, please click the link in the post above and schedule your short demo today.
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Thank you. In today's 3 Minute Thursday, we're working with Astoril's Astaxanthin, whom we've recently partnered with to bring their materials to the award-winning platform, Path Forward Formulator. Let's go ahead and jump right in. We could do a powder-filled capsule, we could do a liquid-filled, we could do a tablet and a gummy, powder, whatever we want with this material. But we're going to start with a liquid-filled capsule.
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Let's do one capsule per serving, 30 per container, with a standard cap and an HPMC polymer. Since we're doing a liquid filled capsule, let's go ahead and use ten percent oil. If you look at the astaxanthin products on the market, you typically see them between four and twelve milligrams a serving. We're going to go ahead and do 10, put it in the capsule, and then we're going to put it in a base of sunflower oil. That's it.
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It was that quick to formulate a standalone astaxanthin using Asteril. We look at the subfacts. We see it's populated where we want it to. The sunflower oil is showing up here. However, we can also change that to format to the other ingredients section. If we save this as a draft, if we go into the ingredient record, we see that we've chosen show B3. If we uncheck that for the sunflower oil and save it, we can go back into that formula we built and see now it's astaxanthin from Asteril only in the B3 section and the sunflower has populated down in other ingredients.
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We can save this formula. Maybe we've decided we want to convert this to a powder-filled cap and make it an eye health formula. All we have to do is choose duplicate. We'll switch to a powder-filled cap. Same thing, one cap per serving, 30 per container, HBMC polymer. Then we have a choice of using our optional excipient generator or not. I'm going to go ahead and use Clean Label Excipients by Ribas. We can remove the sunflower oil because we don't need it anymore. We'll put the Asteril in a capsule and then maybe we want to add some saffron at 20 milligrams, some lutein at 40 milligrams, and maybe some vitamin A as beta carotene at four hundred micrograms.
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Once those are in, we can do a quick look at the supplement facts. Everything's formatted. Everything looks great. Go ahead and save this as a powder-filled capsule version. And just like that, you've got a standalone Astaril. Astaril as a hero ingredient in an eye health formula.
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If we go back to the original Astareal, we can view the record, export the specification sheet, pull the sheet in, we can see the formula with the total amount of input, but let's scroll down to the supplier section and we can see the contact details for Astareal of where to get their Astareal Astaxanthin.
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