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From the BETCHA DON’T KNOW section: Super algae!
Question: What’s packed with a ton of minerals (like iron, calcium, magnesium, zinc), has been shown to reverse heart disease, high blood pressure and cancer, and helps against asthma and hay fever AND PRODUCES MOST OF OUR EARTH’S OXYGEN?
From the BETCHA DON’T KNOW section: Super algae!
Question: What’s packed with a ton of minerals (like iron, calcium, magnesium, zinc), has been shown to reverse heart disease, high blood pressure and cancer, and helps against asthma and hay fever AND PRODUCES MOST OF OUR EARTH’S OXYGEN?
Answer: Algae.
Spirulina
And not just ordinary algae, but in this case blue-green algae or cyanobacteria.
Algae releases oxygen as a waste product of photosynthesis (pretty good “waste” I’d say!), and produces more oxygen than all trees and plants located on land…combined!
One particular form of cyanobacteria is called spirulina. It’s loaded with protein (70%, compared to 22% in beef), it has no cholesterol and it’s very low in fat.
Needless to say, spirulina is becoming a hot item. Many people in the United States are now consuming it in smoothies.
We’d better treasure this valuable life form, which incidentally is believed to be the Earth’s oldest: fossils date back 3.6 billion years.
Large commercial algae farms cultivate spirulina which, thanks to its characteristics, is quite easy to do: you can grow it on land that’s not fertile and irrigate it with recycled brackish water.
It’s super algae!
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Vocabulary:
Algae releases oxygen as a waste product of photosynthesis (pretty good “waste” I’d say!), and produces more oxygen than all trees and plants located on land…combined!
One particular form of cyanobacteria is called spirulina. It’s loaded with protein (70%, compared to 22% in beef), it has no cholesterol and it’s very low in fat.
Needless to say, spirulina is becoming a hot item. Many people in the United States are now consuming it in smoothies.
We’d better treasure this valuable life form, which incidentally is believed to be the Earth’s oldest: fossils date back 3.6 billion years.
Large commercial algae farms cultivate spirulina which, thanks to its characteristics, is quite easy to do: you can grow it on land that’s not fertile and irrigate it with recycled brackish water.
It’s super algae!
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Vocabulary:
A ton of. Un montón de (mucha cantidad)
Blood pressure. Tensión sanguínea
Hay fever. Fiebre del heno
Algae. Algas
Smoothie. Batido de frutas / verduras
Brackish water. Agua salobre
Published by: Drew Crosby
Published by: Drew Crosby
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