Spirulina and its Nutritional Importance: A Possible Approach for Development of Functional Food

Copyright: © 2014 Mishra P et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Food is a basic nutritional requirement, but as a result of substandard diet, approximately 925 million people are suffering from under nutrition in different regions of the world. Consequently a larger population in the underdeveloped world fall prey to the protein deficiency. On the other hand, busy lifestyles fragmented eating habits, change in consumer perception towards physical appearance, dietary choices and more importantly demanding an ideal wholesome food that address many diet and health related issues. Thus there is a need for developing a value added nutritional food supplement of natural origin.