联合国粮食组织推荐螺旋藻为“21世纪最优秀食品”。螺旋藻生长在热带、亚热带盐碱性海湖中,是一种单细胞的绿状蓝藻,属低等水生植物,因其绿状且呈螺旋状而得名。很早以前,一些沿海地区的土著居民就认识了螺旋藻的营养价值。非洲的卡南希人常收集螺旋藻的绿色装液,干燥后制成藻饼。墨西哥的印第安人以螺旋藻为食物, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations recommends Spirulina as “the best food of the 21st century.” Spirulina grows in the tropical, subtropical salt-sea lake, is a single-cell green-like cyanobacteria, is a lower aquatic plants, because of its green and spiral named. Long ago, indigenous people in some coastal areas became aware of the nutritional value of spirulina. African Kanan often collect spirulina green liquid, dried algae cake made. Mexican Indians Spirulina food,