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Nagase and its affiliate Nagase Biochemical have co-developed
Docohexaphen Acid (DHA) containing oil, which is a main material
for glucose, using microorganism fermentation biotechnology.
It is vegetable oil based compare to existing fish oil based
DHA containing oil.
Besides containing more DHA, this oil also contains a large
amount of (n-6) DPA, which does not disrupt aliphatic acid
balance in a living body. It was all along believed that aliphatic
acid balance becomes unstable when only DHA is taken.
This new vegetable DHA containing oil "DHA-NAGASE"
is generated by the fungi cultured with vegetable originated
glucose, which Nagase developed from the culture technology
of Nagase Biochemical and others. It exhibits different aliphatic
acid composition from general DHA oil with fish oil origin.
In addition to high concentration of DHA, it contains about
10 % of (n-6) DPA in equal amount to highly unsaturated fatty
acid.
It is commonly believed to be important to take appropriate
amount of highly unsaturated fatty acid as essential fatty
acid keeps one healthy. It was revealed in animal experiments
that only single dosage of DHA will increase DHA level in
a living body, else it will decrease arachidonic acid, which
is essential to living thing and will lead to the imbalance
of n-3 system and n-6 system.
The administration of DHA-NAGASE evidently shows no decrease
in amount of Arachidonic Acid even as DHA increases and aliphatic
acid balance in living body is being maintained. The new product
proves possible not just the replenishment of DHA but that
it is possible also to produce the kind of health food that
does not intervene with aliphatic acid balance.
In addition to the stable aliphatic acid composition, the
product is semi solid at room temperature hence it is easily
applicable to a solid product. Other advantage is that it
has more of DHA and (n-6) DPA and less of ARA and EPA. A big
plus point is that there is almost no smell of fish.
Nagase has a plan to scale up commercialization through sample
offering and some customer has already begun sampling of the
product. A business plan for the product has been elaborately
drawn out and it is set in a direction that Nagase Biochemical
will manufacture the new product while Nagase will sell and
distribute it.
(Source: Nagase & Co. Ltd)
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