Chlorella is a globular, single-celled freshwater algae with a diameter of 3~8 microns. It is one of the earliest lifes on earth, which appeared more than 2 billion years ago. Chlorella is an efficient photosynthetic plant,it grows and reproduce by Photosynthesis. Chlorella widely grows and has the largest variety in freshwater. Chlorella is easy to cultivate, can take advantage of both light energy for self-growth and organic carbon source to grow and reproduce under heterotrophic conditions. Chlorella grows very fast, is the only one among the animals and plants which can grow four times in 20 h on the earth, so its application value is very high.
Nutrientional value
Chlorella is a kind of high quality green nutrition source food, its main nutrition component is even superior to some main food,with the advantages of high protein, low fat, low sugar, low calorie as well as rich vitamin and mineral element content , and has certain special health care function. Therefore, Chlorella is a high-quality and healthy food source for food additives and health food.
Protein and Amino acid
The protein content in chlorella is very high, but the nutritional components will differ with the species, culture methods and culture medium. The protein content in chlorella is very abundant, amino acids are well-categorized and proportionally close to the standard model, which can completely meet the needs of human and animal growth, and are excellent single cell protein sources and can be used as a nutritional fortifier in food industry. It should be combined with methionine, cystine and threonine so that to improve its nutritional value with the complementarity of amino acid.
Polysaccharide
Polysaccharide is a kind of biomacromolecule which widely exists in animal cell membrane, plant and microbial cell wall. It is one of the four basic substances of life composition. Chlorella polysaccharide has the function of enhancing immune activity. The special function of Chlorella makes its wide usage in health care. After Chlorella is extracted by hot water, deproteinized, precipitated by ethanol, crude glycoprotein is obtained, and pure glycoprotein will obtained by Sephadex-75 chromatography of crude glycoprotein. By comparing with monosaccharide components, Chlorella glycoprotein mainly contains glucose, galactose, rhamnose,the ratio is 7.3:1.97:1. There are also small amounts of arabinose, xylose and mannose. But the components of the monosaccharides in different extracts will be different.
Aliphatic acid
The main function of fat is to form biofilm, provide energy, and act as a medium for fat-soluble substances. Epidemiology has shown that eating more polyunsaturated fatty acids is good for health, currently the most representative unsaturated fatty acid is arachidonic acid, which can be obtained by synthesis of essential fatty acids such as linoleic acid and linolenic acid. It has physiological activities such as lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipid and resisting atherosclerosis. By analysis to Nutritional Components Of C.Pyrenoidosa Grown Heterotrophically,it turns out that the proportion of unsaturated fatty acids in chlorella powder of heterotrophic protein nucleus is as high as 77.24%, and the chain length is concentrated in C16~C18, where the essential fatty acids, linoleic acid and α- linoleic acid are 47.17% and 13.03% respectively, which is rare in other foods.Thus, these nutrients of Chlorella make it has a special health function. In addition, it is worth mentioning that compare with the protein content, fat content in Chlorella can be said to be relatively low, can be used as high protein and low fat food.
Others
Chlorella is also rich in vitamins and minerals. The vitamins and minerals content of 20g Chlorella powder will be approximately equivalent to that of 1 kg ordinery vegetables.
Health function
Lowering blood pressure and lowering blood lipids
Chlorella has the function of inhibiting fat absorption and stimulating high fat food excretion. Clinical studies have shown that Chlorella can be used to prevent and treat hyperlipidemia and diseases associated with fat excess.
Improving the immunity
Chlorella mainly improves the immunity of the body by improving the phagocytosis capability of macrophages, promoting lymphocyte transformation, increasing the number of lymphocytes and enhancing the vitality of natural killer cells, which is mainly related to the efficacy of the following active substances —— Chlorella growth factor (CGF): Chlorella growth factor (CGF), also known as Chlorella spirit, is Cellular active substances. Toxicological experiments have proved that CGF is a nontoxic substance, so it has a broad prospect as an additive for health products and functional foods.
Antioxidation
Chlorella glycoprotein has antioxidant effect and can scavenge free radicals in body. Free radicals are intermediate products of biochemical reactions in human life activities, which include superoxide anion radical (O2•) and hydroxyl radical (• OH).
Anti-tumor
Chlorella has the function of inhibiting the mutagenicity and genotoxicity of Carcinogenic substances, so it has the physiological characteristics of anti-tumor.
Detoxifcation
Chlorella contains some kind of ingredients for liver protection and detoxification. Chlorella has the function of regulating gastrointestinal absorption and promoting toxin excretion.
Others
According to the studies,
Chlorella also has the physiological activities such as anti-radiation, prevention and treatment of gastric ulcer and ulcerative colitis and various types of inflammation, relief of psychological pressure and fibromyalgia.
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