Blue Spirulina (Phycocyanin)

The blue pigment of spirulina, for color without the pond taste.

At a glance Closer in color to stained glass than to anything else in the pantry, this powder is an… Where whole spirulina tastes distinctly of the pond it grew in, this is mild, faintly… Spirulina itself has fed people for centuries, skimmed from the surface of alkaline… What's extracted here is only the pigment-protein locked inside the algae, phycocyanin…

The phycocyanin is drawn out with water alone, no solvents, then filtered clear of the algae's cell matter — which is why none of spirulina's usual chlorophyll flavor or smell survives into the finished powder.