Food & Feed

Since algae represents an important source of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and natural colorants, the incorporation of the whole biomass in food and feed could be used to provide the colour, increment nutritional value, and improve texture or resistance to oxidation. The incorporation of microalgae biomass in the traditional food is a way to design attractive and healthy new products. Even when used in small amounts in nutrition of different animals, algae have been credited with improving the immune system, the increasing of weight, the number of eggs, reproductive performance, or reducing cholesterol levels, indicating the possibility of new farming methods in order to improve the quality of meat and eggs. Also, their importance in aquaculture is not surprising since they are natural food for these organisms. Finally, the nature’s richest and most complete source of organic nutrition, becoming a health food worldwide because of the high protein content and various bioactive compounds is microalga Spirulina.