Royal Spirulina – Phycocyanin Spirulina – Royal Blue
$49.95
Genus: Arthrospira Platensis extract ( Phycocyanin Spirulina)
Net Weight: 50g per bag
Serving Size: A teaspoon 1 teaspoon
Servings Per bag: 50
Product nutritional lab results – Spirulina Powder Lab Results
Product purity lab results – Powder Purity Analysis
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Phycocyanin spirulina
Nutritional Benefits
Phycocyanin spirulina is a blue-green algae offering exceptionally high protein content and remarkably complete composition of vitamins and minerals essential for healthy living. Unlike other potent sources of nutrients and protein Spirulina is low in calories and cholesterol. Below are a few of the highlights for why Spirulina is such an excellent source of your daily nutrition needs:
Dried Spirulina as a potent source of protein
Dried Spirulina is 59% – 74% percent protein which is especially impressive when compared with dried soybean at 40 percent, lentils at 26 percent, and peanuts at 25 percent. Perhaps more surprising is that raw beef only contains 23 percent protein. With only 36 kcal calories per 10 grams of dried powder, Spirulina is an excellent source of protein without empty calories. Additionally, the protein is far more accessible by the human digestive system than most other plant and animal proteins. This means the body can absorb and utilize much more of the available protein with far less energy and stress on the digestive system.
(source: USDA, FAO p. 10)
Complete Source of Amino Acids and Omega 3
In addition to containing omega-3 fatty acid, and is highly concentrated with protein, Spirulina is dense with all 8 essential amino acids that the body does not naturally synthesize. Here is a list of the different amino acids and how your body utilizes them:
- Isoleucine – required for optimal growth
- Leucine – stimulates brain function
- Lysine – needed for producing antibodies, enzymes, and hormones
- Methionine – antioxidant properties
- Phenylalanine – required for thyroid function
- Threonine – improves intestinal and digestive function
- Tryptophane – regulates serotonin
- Valine – stimulates the mental and physical capacity
Protein without cholesterol
An undesirable by-product of many sources of animal protein is cholesterol. Doctors recommend healthy adults consume less than 300 mg or 200 mg if you have diabetes or suffer from heart disease. Consider this, 10 grams of dried spirulina (approximately a large spoonful) carries 5.75-gram protein and 1.3 mg of cholesterol, compared to an equivalent quantity of egg protein containing 300 mg of cholesterol.
(sources: FAO p6 and MAYO Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/reduce-cholesterol/CL00012 )
High concentrations of essential minerals
Remember the expression that eating green is good, well you had no idea just how good it can be. Below is a list of some of the essential minerals you receive in 10 gram of dried Spirulina compared with more traditional sources:
- Iron: 2.9 mg – more iron than beef (recommended daily iron consumption) – M 8mg F 18mg
- Potassium: 114 mg – more potassium than bananas (recommended potassium intake) 4700 mg
- Calcium: 10 mg – more calcium than whole milk (recommended calcium intake) 1100 mg
- Magnesium: 20 mg – more magnesium than walnuts (recommended magnesium) M 400 mg W 350 mg
- Zinc: 0.2 mg – more zinc than spinach (zinc) M 11 mg W 8 mg
Spirulina does not replace a healthy diet but helps to balance out deficiencies and gives a great boost of energy. As an example, to achieve a recommended daily allowance of many minerals, an adult would need to consume a very large quantity of Phycocyanin spirulina.
- Iron: Men need 2.8 tbsp Women need 6.2 tbsp (Spirulina) ~ comparable to approximately 450 grams for men and 1000 grams for women of grass-fed beef
- Potassium: 33 tbsp ~ comparable to 1300 grams of bananas
- Calcium: 110 tbsp ~ comparable to (1000 grams of whole milk)
- Magnesium: 18 tbsp ~ comparable to 250 grams of walnuts
- zinc M 55 tbsp 40 tbsp ~ comparable to 2000 grams for men and 1,500 grams for women of spinach
*note: an average tablespoon of dried Spirulina approximately 10 grams
(source: USDA)
Vitamins and more vitamins
Here is a shortlist of the alphabet of vitamins in Spirulina: A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B8, B9, B12, C, D, E, and K. It would take too long to list all the benefits from this list of vitamins so we decided to highlight just one:
- β-carotene (beta-carotene) is best known for its red-orange pigment found in carrots. And did you know that the National Cancer Institute of the United States of America has recommended consumption of 6 mg of beta-carotene daily to reduce the risk of cancer. In 4 grams, half a tablespoon of dried Spirulina, you will consume 6 mg or your daily recommended amount of beta-carotene. (source FAO p. 7)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16248810
QUALITY OF SPIRULINA
You should be aware of spirulina quality because most of the spirulina imported into the USA is grown in China and Korea as animal feed and imported to the USA for human consumption.
Example of Royal Spirulina vs two other brands that have been burnt and are full of contaminants.
Example of imported spirulina grown as animal feed and sold for distribution under the false ORGANIC label.
Additional information
| Weight | 2.1 oz |
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| Dimensions | 8 × 5.5 × 1 in |
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Nutritional Benefits
Phycocyanin is a pigment-protein complex from the light-harvesting phycobiliprotein family, along with allophycocyanin and phycoerythrin. It is an accessory pigment to chlorophyll. All phycobiliproteins are water-soluble, so they cannot exist within the membrane-like carotenoids can.
What is Phycocyanin?
Phycocyanin isolated from marine organisms has the characteristics of high efficiency and low toxicity, and it can be used as a functional food. It has been reported that phycocyanin has anti-oxidative function, anti-inflammatory activity, anti-cancer function, immune enhancement function, liver, and kidney protection pharmacological effects. Thus, phycocyanin has an important development and utilization as a potential drug, and phycocyanin has become a new hot spot in the field of drug research. So far, there are more and more studies have shown that phycocyanin has an anti-cancer effect, which can block the proliferation of cancer cells and kill cancer cells. Phycocyanin exerts anti-cancer activity by blocking the tumor cell cycle, inducing tumor cell apoptosis and autophagy, thereby phycocyanin can serve as a promising anti-cancer agent. This review discusses the therapeutic use of phycocyanin and focuses on the latest advances of phycocyanin as a promising anti-cancer drug.
(source: National Health Institute)
Clinical uses of phycocyanin
Phycocyanin can have a potent potential as a drug in a wide range of clinical applications. Phycocyanin shows a wide range of pharmacological effects, with anti-oxidation 53, anti-cancer 54, anti-inflammatory activity 55, photo-induced cytotoxicity 56 and stimulating the immune system 57.
Phycocyanin plays an antioxidant role in inhibiting hepatic lipid peroxidation and being helpful to liver protection 58, 59. Phycocyanin also scavenges free radicals from damaged nerve cells, which could avoid DNA oxidative damage cause from free radicals and prevent neuronal cell apoptosis 60, 61. There are more and more researches have shown that phycocyanin plays an effective anti-cancer role in various cancer cell types (such as breast cancer 57, 62, liver cancer 63, lung cancer64, 65, colon cancer 66, Leukemia 67 and bone marrow cancer 68 and so on) in vitro and in vivo. Morcos first discovered the laser-induced cytotoxicity of phycocyanin, which could kill tumor cells, while the damage to normal tissue is minimal 69. When in combination with He-Ne light, C-phycocyanin can serve as a photosensitize agent in the photodynamic therapy, which could provide a possible tumor therapy 57. C-phycocyanin shows specific affinity to the scavenger receptor-A (SR-A) of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs), which is highly expressed on TAM. Thus, C-phycocyanin can act as a new class of TAM-targeted photosensitiser, which exhibits an efficient in vitro photodynamic activity, and selectively accumulates in tumour sites probably due to the affinity to TAM, which provides a novel strategy to enhance the efficacy for cancer therapy 70. Moreover, C-phycocyanin displays an anti-inflammatory potential, so C-phycocyanin is a potential natural anti-inflammatory agent 71, 72. Phycocyanin can promote animal blood cell regeneration, improve lymphocyte activity and lymphatic system to improve immune function, and comprehensively enhance the disease resistance of the body 73. In addition, C-phycocyanin could inhibit TGF-β1-induced EMT and C-PC might be a potential anti-fibrosis drug 74.
Phycocyanin and cancer
Cancer is a generic term for malignancy diseases, their basic characteristics are cell proliferation and apoptosis out of control, and hyperplasia to form a new organism (neoplasm). The pharmacological effects of anti-cancer drugs generally include inhibition of tumor cell proliferation, induction of tumor cell apoptosis, cell cycle arrest and inhibition of tumor cell metastasis and so on. In fact, most drugs with anti-cancer properties are derived from natural compounds 83. Among them, phycocyanin, a marine drug, plays an anti-proliferation and pro-apoptotic effects on different cancer cell lines in vitro, while phycocyanin have no side effects on normal tissue cells 84, 85. More and more evidences have proved that phycocyanin has an effective anti-cancer effect on various cancer cell types (such as breast cancer 57, 62, liver cancer 63, lung cancer 64, 65, colon cancer 66, Leukemia 67 and bone marrow cancer 68) in vitro and in vivo. High-dose phycocyanin does not induce significant toxic symptoms or mortality in animal experiments 81, 86. These studies demonstrated the therapeutic potential of phycocyanin in cancer therapy.
High concentrations of essential minerals
Remember the expression that eating green is good, well you had no idea just how good it can be. Below is a list of some of the essential minerals you receive in 10 gram of dried Spirulina compared with more traditional sources:
- Iron: 5.4 mg – more iron than beef (recommended daily iron consumption) – M 8mg F 18mg
- Potassium: 114 mg – more potassium than bananas (recommended potassium intake) 4700 mg
- Calcium: 10 mg – more calcium than whole milk (recommended calcium intake) 1100 mg
- Magnesium: 20 mg – more magnesium than walnuts (recommended magnesium) M 400 mg W 350 mg
- Zinc: 0.2 mg – more zinc than spinach (zinc) M 11 mg W 8 mg
Spirulina does not replace a healthy diet but helps to balance out deficiencies and gives a great boost of energy. As an example, to achieve a recommended daily allowance of many minerals, an adult would need to consume a very large quantity of Spirulina.
- Iron: Men need 2.8 tbsp Women to need 6.2 tbsp (Spirulina) ~ comparable to approximately 450 grams for men and 1000 grams for women of grass-fed beef
- Potassium: 33 tbsp ~ comparable to 1300 grams of bananas
- Calcium: 110 tbsp ~ comparable to (1000 grams of whole milk)
- Magnesium: 18 tbsp ~ comparable to 250 grams of walnuts
- zinc M 55 tbsp 40 tbsp ~ comparable to 2000 grams for men and 1,500 grams for women of spinach
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