What are superfoods?

Superfoods are already a familiar friend to celebrities around the world. Superfoods are foods with an excellent nutritional balance and greater nutritional value than normal foods, or they are foods that are particularly rich in a specific nutrient or health-promoting component.
Superfoods stand somewhere between standard foods and dietary supplements. They can be used as cooking ingredients and as health foods.

Spirulina has been selected as one of the 10 Primary Superfoods, showing that it is a leader amongst superfoods.

The Japan Superfoods Association (JSA)

What is Spirulina?

When viewed through a microscope, Spirulina looks like a coiled spiral, which is said to be how it earned its name based on the Latin word “spira” meaning twisted shape or helix.
Historically, humans have consumed spirulina as a food since tens of thousands of years ago. Spirulina used to be a staple food, a protein source for indigenous people inhabiting the areas around the saline lakes in Mexico and Africa.
Spirulina is now a recognized health food, helping people in Japan, the U.S., Europe, Oceania, Asia and around the world to stay healthy.
In other words, those nutrients help and work with each other to turn what you eat into blood, muscle, and energy.
Spirulina, also known as “The King of Superfoods”, contains over 50 healthy nutrients such as dietary fiber, polysaccharides and unsaturated fatty acids in addition to vitamins, minerals and amino acids.

What is “DIC Spirulina”?

There are many brands of spirulina, which have different nutritional values, safety, and quality. DIC Spirulina has been researched at universities, hospitals, and public institutions to confirm its high standards. Also, our Spirulina is certified ISO (international standard of the guarantee of quality), HACCP (general hygiene management production system), GMP (appropriate production model) and goes through a rigorous quality control system.
“Spirulina is an interesting food, rich in iron, high in protein, and suitable for children” which WHO once commented to our Spirulina. “DIC Spirulina” was sent to children of Chernobyl and the children of the Croatian refugees who suffered from malnutrition.
DIC has been the pioneer in commercial spirulina production (since 1970) and one of the world’s largest suppliers in t he world. For more than 40 years, we’ve maintained our high quality and honest practices.