All Spirulina articles
- How to Qualify a Spirulina Supplier: A Scored Checklist Buyer's Guide
A scored checklist for qualifying a bulk spirulina supplier, dominated by one capability — LC-MS/MS microcystin testing every batch — plus cultivation disclosure, colour value conditions and red flags.
- Microcystins in Spirulina: The Risk, and How It Is Actually Controlled Comparison
Microcystins are spirulina's defining risk — hepatotoxins from contaminating Microcystis in open ponds. How contamination happens, why it is invisible, LC-MS/MS testing and supporting controls.
- Phycocyanin, Colour Value and How Spirulina Is Specified Testing & Quality
Technical guide to phycocyanin specification — how colour value works and why it beats percentage, E18 grades, protein denaturation under heat, light and low pH, and protein assay for biomass.
- Spirulina and Phycocyanin: A Complete Buyer's Guide Buyer's Guide
Buyer's guide to spirulina — why microcystin testing is the defining control, spirulina powder vs phycocyanin extract, colour value E18, open pond vs photobioreactor and the B12 question.
- Spirulina in Formulation: Superfood Powders and Natural Blue Buyer's Guide
How spirulina and phycocyanin are formulated across superfood powders, beverages, confectionery and frozen dairy — the heat, light and pH limits on natural blue, taste and colour management.
- The Spirulina Market: A Commodity Superfood With a Premium Blue Inside It Market
How natural-blue demand created a premium phycocyanin segment inside commodity spirulina, why colour regulation differs from supplement rules, and India's position in supply.
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