Organic Spirulina Powder (250g)

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Spirulina is the blue-green algae that turned “superfood” from marketing into a category — a microscopic freshwater organism cultivated for its extraordinary nutritional density, dried into the deepest green powder in the kitchen. Sattva Superfoods’ spirulina is certified organic, a single ingredient, and packed in the UK in a 250 g resealable pouch. What spirulina actually is Technically a cyanobacterium rather than a plant, spirulina has been eaten for centuries — the Aztecs harvested it from Lake Texcoco as tecuitlatl, and communities around Lake Chad have pressed it into dihé cakes for generations. Modern cultivation grows it in controlled alkaline ponds, where its spiral filaments (the name means “little spiral”) are harvested, rinsed and gently dried to keep the pigments and nutrients intact. The nutritional headline Spirulina’s fame rests on numbers few whole foods approach: it is around 60% complete protein by dry weight — containing all essential amino acids — and carries iron, B vitamins, beta-carotene and its signature pigment phycocyanin, the blue in blue-green. That density is why a mere teaspoon turns an entire smoothie jungle-green and why NASA studied it as a compac

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