What is the deal with products like Spirulina, Super Blue-Green Algae, and Magna Green that Ive seen in health food stores?
A. Spirulina and Super- Blue Green Algae are algaes grown in alkaline waters that have been dried and ground. Algaes, which include seaweeds, are simple plants that grow in water and lack the indigestible fiber cell wall of land plants. They are extremely nutritious, and are much appreciated foods in many cultures. Magna Green is made from the dried juice of young barley plants mixed with brown rice. The drawback with these products and many others like them is that the price is completely out of proportion to their nutritional value. Unless you are wealthy, you are better off drying your own greens. It is simple and inexpensive and yields a product of very similar nutritional value.
