In the Second Innovation and Development Forum of Natural Active Ingredients: Industry-University-Research Docking and Cooperation Conference held by the Herbridge Media, the extraction and industrialization of shrimp head waste source of the innovation and research project from Li Yujin, director of Shandong Marine Food Nutrition Research Institute, have attracted the interest of many representative enterprises participating in the conference. The demand of the current market on astaxanthin shows an increasing trend, but it is generally extracted from the cultured chlorella. Therefore, its cost is extremely high and its technology is also extremely threshold. The astaxanthin in aquatic shrimp head waste has very high industry development value.   
 
The laboratory of Director Li is located in Weihai City, Shandong. Facing the sea breeze slowly blown by the sea, Director Li ponders how to carry out the high-value unitization and development of 500 thousand tons of shrimp heads produced in China every year. In the laboratory, Professor Li analyzes the chemical composition of shrimp head waste and preliminarily determines the astaxanthin in shrimp heads has extraction value. The shrimp head waste is filtered after fermentation so as to isolatee the shrimp protein powder, astaxanthin and other concentrated actives through the relevant processing respective for liquid part and solid part.       
 
For the instability of astaxanthin on light and heat, Professor Li has tried making the stability of astaxanthin significantly enhanced through compounding astaxanthin with vitamin E and other vitamins and antioxidant ingredients. Therefore, Professor Li who often lives by the seaside expresses his idea to the Herbridge Media. Through the common compounding between marine natural active ingredient source and other plant source antioxidants, he hopes to cooperate with enterprises to develop the stable marine + plant actives formula with antioxidazing capability and various health foods and nutritional health products. 
 
What will happen if marine thinking meets with continental thinking? The Herbridge Media will also actively promote this work, and we hope that all practitioners will continue to pay attention to it.