The present invention provides a method for efficiently utilizing
crustaceans, particularly, krill as resources. More particularly, the
present invention provides a method for efficiently recovering and
utilizing lipophilic effective substances such as carotenoids,
highly-unsaturated fatty acids, and phospholipids which are components
thereof. There are provided an aggregate of eyeballs of a crustacean; use
of an aggregate of eyeballs of a crustacean as a supply source of a
carotenoid, highly-unsaturated fatty acids and/or phospholipids; a food
or a nutritional hearth supplement for furnishing a carotenoid,
highly-unsaturated fatty acids/or phospholipids, which contains an
aggregate of eyeballs of a crustacean as it is or in a pulverized state;
and a process for producing an aggregate of eyeballs of a crustacean
containing reducing a water content of the crustacean to facilitate the
separation of the eyeballs and separating the eyeballs from a fish body
by physical impact, followed by recovering them. The crustacean is
preferably krill or mysid.