{"id":1151,"date":"2025-11-18T12:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:31:13","slug":"enhancement-of-active-vitamin-b12-production-in-spirulina-via-controlled-light-condiions-in-scalable-photobioreactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/enhancement-of-active-vitamin-b12-production-in-spirulina-via-controlled-light-condiions-in-scalable-photobioreactors\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancement of Active Vitamin B12 production in Spirulina via controlled light condiions in scalable photobioreactors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The study investigates whether specific light conditions can enhance the production of active vitamin B\u2081\u2082 in Spirulina, a blue-green algae. Traditionally, Spirulina contains predominantly a pseudo-vitamin B\u2081\u2082 form, which is inactive in humans. In this in vitro exploratory research, scientists grown Spirulina in scalable LEDs-controlled photobioreactors in order to stimulate the production of biologically active vitamin B\u2081\u2082. In the results, it was found that this method yielded Spirulina with vitamin B\u2081\u2082 levels as effective as those available in beef (1.64 \u00b5g\/100g Spirulina in the grown sample compared to 0.7\u20131.5 \u00b5g\/100g in beef). The study suggests that large-scale production of such Spirulina could help address global vitamin B\u2081\u2082 deficiencies, particularly in populations reliant on plant-based diets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s44187-024-00152-1\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s44187-024-00152-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study investigates whether specific light conditions can enhance the production of active vitamin B\u2081\u2082 in Spirulina, a blue-green algae. Traditionally, Spirulina contains predominantly a pseudo-vitamin B\u2081\u2082 form, which is inactive in humans. In this in vitro exploratory research, scientists grown Spirulina in scalable LEDs-controlled photobioreactors in order to stimulate the production of biologically active [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}