This invention discloses new krill oil compositions characterized by
having high amounts of phospholipids, astaxanthin esters and/or omega-3
contents. The krill oils are obtained from krill meal using supercritical
fluid extraction in a two stage process. Stage 1 removes the neutral
lipid by extracting with neat supercritical CO.sub.2 or CO.sub.2 plus
approximately 5% of a co-solvent. Stage 2 extracts the actual krill oils
by using supercritical CO.sub.2 in combination with approximately 20%
ethanol. The krill oil materials obtained are compared with commercially
available krill oil and found to be more bioeffective in a number of
areas such as anti-inflammation, anti-oxidant effects, improving insulin
resistances and improving blood lipid profile.