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Spirulina acceptability trials in rats. A study for the "MELISSA" life-support system
N Tranquille1, J J Emeis, D de Chambure
1Gaubius Laboratory, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Advances in Space Research : the Official Journal of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
|November 1, 1994
Abstract:
Groups of five rats were fed for sixteen weeks a slightly deficient diet, supplemented with 0-40% of a dried preparation of the blue-green alga Spirulina as a protein source. Control groups were fed a normal rat diet. No significant differences between groups were found in food intake, growth rate or carbon dioxide production. All animals remained apparently healthy, and had similar organ weights. The study suggests that Spirulina may be used as a protein source in rat diets.