Spirulina - An Answer to Rising Food Costs

I read an interesting article about spirulina today on NaturalNews.com.


Spirulina just may be nature's most perfect food. These tiny blue green spiral coils harvest the energy of the sun and turn it into a treasure chest of bio-available nutrients. Designed by nature 3.6 billion years ago, these blue green algae were the generators of the oxygen found in our atmosphere which allowed all higher life forms to evolve. The single cells contained everything needed by life to evolve into the rich diversity we find on earth today.


The great thing about spirulina is that it can be grown, with little difficulty, in the regions of the world that need nutrients the most. It is a very affordable plant and it is packed with most of what the body needs:


60% highly digestible vegetable protein, and contains the highest concentration of beta carotene, vitamin B-12, iron and trace minerals, and the rare essential fatty acid GLA so missing in people who weren't breast fed. It also contains popular glyconutrients in the form of polysaccharides. It has a balanced spectrum of amino acids, cleansing chlorophyll, and the blue pigment, phycocyanin.


This superfood can be grown organically as well. Organic Spirulina doesn't have a lot of the fillers that most other mass-brands have. It allows the body to better break-down the nutrients it needs to survive.

Spirulina has awesome potential -- it just needs to be explored a little more.