Both wakame and hijiki are available at Japanese specialty food stores, some health food stores and online. Although brown seaweed is the richest source of fucoxanthin, you would have to eat an unrealistic amount of it daily to get fucoxanthin levels close to those used in research studies.
Fucoxanthin is also available as a nutritional supplement in capsule form and can be found in some health food stores and online.
Why Benefits Do People Get From Flucoxanthins?
Fucoxanthin is excellent for weight loss. Japanese researchers have found that fucoxanthin (isolated from wakame) promotes the loss of abdominal fat . Animals lost 5 to 11% of their body weight.
Although it's not fully understood how fucoxanthin targets fat, it appears to target a protein chain in the fat called UCP1 and this does raise the rate at which abdominal or belly fat is burned. Abdominal or belly fat, also called white adipose tissue, is the most toxic fat and encloses around our organs. It is linked to heart disease and even diabetes. Fucoxanthin has a really good side affect by stimulating the production of DHA, this is one of the omega-3 fatty acids found in fatty fish such as salmon that is so good for the heart and the health of the skin and hair..
