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Article: Ancient food source offers possibilities for world's hungry, AIDS and environment. (Spirulina)
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- April 5, 1990
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ANCIENT FOOD SOURCE OFFERS POSSIBILITIES
FOR WORLD'S HUNGRY, AIDS AND ENVIRONMENT
FARENDE, TOGO, West Africa, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- This remote village is the site of an experimental project to grow Spirulina, a spiral-shaped, blue-green microalgae noted for its exceptional nutrition.
Undernourished Kabye children take spirulina as a daily supplement to their diet of millet and root vegetables grown on poor quality soil. On the other side of the world, the National Cancer Institute announced that substances derived from blue-green algae were found to be "remarkably active" against the Aids virus in test tube experiments. Both ...