{"id":239,"date":"2009-03-14T10:49:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T17:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/fucoxanthin.php"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:27:30","slug":"fucoxanthin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/fucoxanthin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fucoxanthin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A carotenoid isolated from brown seaweed (such as Undaria pinnatifida, also known as &#8220;wakame&#8221; in Japan). Fucoxanthin is touted as a weight loss nutrient, on the strength of several studies in rodents that found it reduced body fat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/15896707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when taken alone<\/a>, as well as with medium chain triglycerides or <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/action\/cookieAbsent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fish oil<\/a>.\u00a0 Human studies, however, are lacking &#8211; although there is one that shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18186952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dietary fucoxanthin is poorly absorbed<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"http:\/\/ajcn.nutrition.org\/content\/80\/2\/396.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">carotenoid absorption is enhanced by fat<\/a>, however,\u00a0co-ingestion with a source of dietary fat (such as MCTs or fish oil, as suggested by the above animal experiments), could improve bioavailability.\u00a0 Nonetheless, more research needs to be done before fucoxanthin can be given a solid &#8220;thumbs up&#8221; for weight loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A carotenoid isolated from brown seaweed (such as Undaria pinnatifida, also known as &#8220;wakame&#8221; in Japan). Fucoxanthin is touted as a weight loss nutrient, on the strength of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[210,231,423,454,978,982],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}