Natural Organic Phycocyanin Blue Spirulina Extract Powder

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Active Ingredient	Phycocyanin
Description	Blue fine powder
Botanical Source	Algae Blue Pigment
Main Specification	Color value E18 ±5% (E1.0% 618nm in water)

 

Product Introduction

Phycocyanin (also called Spirulina Blue, Blue Spirulina, Spirulina Extract) is a pigment-protein complex from the light-harvesting phycobiliprotein family, along with allo- phycocyanin and phycoerythrin. It is an accessory pigment to chlorophyll. Phycocyanin powder is a natural, water soluble and non-toxic food pigment extracted and processed from Spirulina platensis. It is a characteristic bright blue color, absorbing orange and red light, particularly near 620nm, and emits fluorescence at about 652nm.

Phycocyanin powder is one of the rare pigment proteins in nature, not only has vivid color, but also is a nutrient-rich protein, which has a complete amino acids composition and a high content of essential amino acids. Phycocyanin has the  physiological activities of  improving immunity and scavenging free radicals. In the early 21st century, phycocyanin was widely used as food and cosmetics senior natural

pigment, and made into biochemical drugs in United States, Japan and other countries. Because of the strong fluorescence characteristics.

 

Characteristic	Specifications	Testing Method
Algae Variety Identification	Spirulina Platensis	Morphological Classification
Appearance	Blue Fine powder	Visual Determination
Loss on Drying	≤6.0%	GB2005
Color Value	E18.0~E30.0	ABS@618nm
Total Heavy Metals	≤10ppm	AAS
As	≤2.0ppm	AAS
Pb	≤1.0ppm	AAS
Total Plate Count	≤1000cfu/g	USP
Yeast & Mold	≤100cfu/g	USP

 

Functions:

1.Protect nerve tissue.

2.Anti - cancer cells, anti - tumor.

3.Antioxidant, free radical scavenging.

4.antianaphylaxis.

5.Another function of phycocyanin is as a fluorescer.

 

Applications:

1.Natural food pigment: phycocyanin is water-soluble pigment, non-toxic, pure blue, clear and lovely, can be used as food colorant, cosmetics additives.

2.Pharmaceuticals and Health Care Product.

3.Special reagent for biological, chemical and cytological experiments: algal cyanin blue with fluorescence can be used as a photodynamic reagent for biological and cytological studies

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