Valensa Formed

Valensa Formed

EUSTIS, Fla.Valensa is a newcompany formed from the merger of U.S. Nutra LLC, based here, and Israel-basedAlgatechnologies Ltd.

The company will supply high-purity supercritical CO2botanical extracts to the nutrition, functional food and cosmetic markets with aprimary goal to commercialize the potential of astaxanthin. Additionalingredients Valensa is supplying include saw palmetto, cranberry seed, ginger,rosemary, oregano and more botanical extracts.

As a supplier, Valensa will focus on some of the mostpromising scientific research in the area of supplemental nutrition and consumerproducts that deliver well-being by creating leading-edge ingredients that havethe highest purity, quality and efficacy possible, said Fred B.

Gregg Jr., chief executive officer of U.S. Nutra.We are allexcited about the opportunities that lie ahead for our ZANTHIN® brand naturalastaxanthin product, and believe that we have put together the elements todeliver the highest quality, most effective astaxanthin on the market.

Valensas ZANTHIN astaxanthin is manufactured from themicroalgae Haematococcus pluvialis,grown in closed culture using pure water. It is processed with ultra highpressure CO2 extraction technology. The company also recently introduced anastaxanthincranberry seed oil blend, AstaCran, as an antioxidant with aunique essential fatty acid profile.