Functionality of N-3 Fatty Acid Material Krill Oil

Abstract

Krill Oil (K-Oil), extracted from Antarctic krill (Euphausia Superba Dana), has a unique chemical composition. It is rich in n-3 highly unsaturated fatty acid (n-3HUFA) that combined with phospholipids, especially with phosphatidylcholine (PC), rather than fish oil that combined with triglyceride. As a new n-3HUFA source, K-Oil has been reported to have many effects on physiological function in recent studies. In this paper, the results of the functional research on K-Oil are introduced.