Spanish company produces Phytoplankton as a new food trend
A Spanish company called Fitoplancton Marino is cultivating phytoplankton, also known as microalgae, for starred restaurants in the country.
These microscopic vegetables have long been produced for cosmetics and aquariums and also for the purpose of feeding fish larvae. But as they are considered veggies anyway, the company does not see any reason why they can’t be used as the food we eat. The trendy vegetable is grown in controlled and sterile lab conditions before it is dried out and powdered. It’s already used for an enhanced sea flavor in around a thousand famous restaurants. Now that the target appetites have been whetted, planktons are on high demand.
The tiny yet pricy food sells for more than 3 dollars per gram, or more than 3,000 dollars per kilo. There are around 200 species of phytoplankton some of which have managed to get approval for consumption inside the EU.
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