Why Spirulina?

The gap between the human population and food supply has widened gradually in recent years and the balance is greatly in favor of population growth. According to WHO, several hundred million people are suffering from malnutrition in different parts of the globe and majority belongs to the Third World Countries. Though efforts have been made to improve land and animal based conventional sources of protein (meat, fish, poultry, egg, milk, pulses, vegetable etc) production, frequent increase in food scarcity and rising prices of food commodity may not satisfy the demand of ever increasing global population. Spirulina, micro-algae is a way out for the problems of humankind to be able to survive in the future.

Micro-algae are high value, low volume biological materials with a growing demand in health food, therapeutics and specialized feeds. The potentials of microalgae as source of food or food supplements dates backs to many centuries, wherein thick surface growth in water bodies were collected and consumed by ancient Aztec tribes.

Food security, implying the access of every individual to the physical, economic and environmental aspects of a balanced diet and safe drinking water are the primary objectives of all nations, especially developing and under developed countries. In the present era, Spirulina, a spirally coiled photosynthetic cyanoprokaryote, is often hailed as “wonder food” of our times, with unusually high protein content and nutraceutical properties. Algae has been existing on the earth surface for more than 3.6 billion years, may be one of the disease preventing and anti aging wonderful nature's gift to mankind.