{"id":8750,"date":"2013-08-13T22:48:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T20:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=8750"},"modified":"2013-08-13T22:48:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T20:48:48","slug":"spirulina-culture-at-the-national-institute-of-sciences-and-technologies-of-the-sea-monastir-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=8750","title":{"rendered":"Spirulina culture at the National Institute of Sciences and Technologies of the Sea. Monastir, Tunisia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;\">Spirulina is characterized by its high content of protein in regard to the amino acids as well as the essential fatty-acids. The photo which was taken during 1998 shows the culture of Spirulina as carried out in the research facilities at Monastir, Tunisia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The culture of Spirulina, \u201c<i>Arthrospira platensis<\/i>\u201d has different purposes that include:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Feeding rotifers, <i>Brachionus plicatilis<\/i> which is an essential organism used as larval food in the marine hatcheries (powder form of spirulina). Spirulina in its live form is also used as prey for enhancing the nutritional merits of larval food such as artemia. It has been claimed that Spirulina when incorporated properly in the feed, the immunological resistance of the larvae is expected to improve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The commercial expansion of Spirulina culture targets meeting the growing demands as a food and its interest for health and wellbeing of human and animal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Away from the utilization of Spirulina as a food, it has been used in the manufacturing of \u201cSpirulina soap\u201d which is commercially promoted as a type of dermatological soap that helps to soften the skin, cleans the epidermal wounds and contributes to the cells healing and regeneration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Tunisia-Spirolina-culture.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8754\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?attachment_id=8754\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Tunisia-Spirolina-culture.jpg?fit=892%2C542&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"892,542\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tunisia (Spirolina culture)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Tunisia-Spirolina-culture.jpg?fit=750%2C456&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8754\" alt=\"Tunisia (Spirolina culture)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Tunisia-Spirolina-culture-300x182.jpg?resize=300%2C182\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Tunisia-Spirolina-culture.jpg?resize=300%2C182&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Tunisia-Spirolina-culture.jpg?w=892&amp;ssl=1 892w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spirulina is characterized by its high content of protein in regard to the amino acids as well as the essential fatty-acids. The photo which was taken during 1998 shows the culture of Spirulina as carried out in the research facilities at Monastir, Tunisia. The culture of Spirulina, \u201cArthrospira platensis\u201d has different purposes that include: Feeding &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=8750\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[359,291,293],"tags":[3589,2256,3590,3588,3591,2249,1012,3592,3593,3398],"class_list":["post-8750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquaculture-and-artisanal-fishery-global-information-sharing","category-gallery-2","category-photos","tag-arthrospira-platensis","tag-brachionus-plicatilis","tag-larval-food","tag-monastir","tag-nutritional-merit-of-spirulina","tag-rotifers","tag-spirulina","tag-spirulina-in-human-food","tag-spirulina-soap","tag-tunisia","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1NIq6-2h8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8756,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions\/8756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}