Why Zooca® Delivers Year-Round Benefits for Modern Consumers

Wellbeing increasingly centres on long-term health, from metabolic balance and healthy body composition to staying active as we age. For supplement brands, this opens opportunities for multifunctional ingredients with year-round shelf appeal.

Zooca® Calanus® Oil meets this need with research-backed benefits and a distinctive profile, combining more than 40 fatty acids, marine policosanols and naturally occurring astaxanthin, all bound in a unique wax ester form.

Zooca® Calanus® Oil bring more than 20 years of scientific research to a range of health applications, including metabolic health. Studies have suggest that, alongside moderate exercise, supplementation could help reduce fat mass and increase lean body mass.^1-3

Further studies in elderly people (women aged 62–80) reported improvements in body composition, functional strength and whole-body insulin sensitivity when supplementation was combined with exercise.^4-7

In addition, a randomised double-blind study (2025) found that Zooca® Calanus® Oil significantly improved insulin sensitivity, particularly in individuals with mild insulin resistance.⁸ Further research also conducted in 2025 (pilot study) reported improvements in cardiac diastolic function and markers associated with metabolic balance in women with obesity and prediabetes.⁹

Furthermore, Marine policosanols and astaxanthin are key bio‑actives that complement the omega‑3 profile of Zooca® Calanus® Oil and may support metabolic health. Download our latest Composition White Paper here to learn more about Zooca®’s benefits.

For product developers, Zooca® Calanus® Oil combines broad application potential with strong ingredient credentials: it is bioavailable, Novel Food approved and naturally unrefined. It comes from Calanus finmarchicus, an important renewable resource in the Norwegian Sea. Available as an oil or finished softgel solution, this ingredient gives brands flexibility to develop differentiated products for consumers focused on maintaining health, performance and vitality throughout the year.

Discover Zooca® Calanus® Oil: download our Product Profile Sheet here or contact us. Visit our Health Platform to download more resources on this innovative lipid solution.

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(1) Wasserfurth et al. (2020) Effects of Exercise Combined with a Healthy Diet or Calanus finmarchicus Oil Supplementation on Body Composition and Metabolic Markers – A Pilot Study. Nutrients 12 (7), 2139
(2) Wasserfurth, et al. (2020) 12-weeks of Calanus finmarchicus oil intake improves omega-3-index in healthy older subjects engaging in an exercise program. British Journal of Nutrition 1-8.
(3) Wasserfurth et al.(2021) Impact of Dietary Modifications on Plasma Sirtuins 1, 3 and 5 in Older Overweight Individuals Undergoing 12-Weeks of Circuit Training. Nutrients. 27;13 (11):3824
(4) Stepan et al. (2022) Combined aerobic and resistance training with calanus oil supplementation improves central cardiodynamic function in older women. 29;14(1):149
(5) Cizkova et al. (2020) Exercise Training Reduces Inflammation of Adipose Tissue in the Elderly: Cross-Sectional and Randomized Interventional Trial. J Clin Endocrinol Metab1;105(12):dgaa630.
(6) Dadova et al. (2020) Effect of Calanus Oil Supplementation and 16-week exercise Program on Selected Fitness Parameters in Older Women. Nutrients.14;12(2):481.
(7) Brezinova et al. (2020) Exercise training induces insulin-sensitizing PAHSAs in adipose tissue of elderly women. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids,1865(2):158576
(8)Kerlikowsky et al. (2025) Calanus Oil and Lifestyle Interventions Improve Glucose Homeostasis in Obese Subjects with Insulin Resistance.org/10.3390/md23040139.
(9) Kerlikowsky et al. (2025) Effects of 12 Weeks of Calanus Oil Supplementation on Cardiac Diastolic Function in Obese and Prediabetic Women - A Pilot Study. doi.org/10.3390/metabo15090596}