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means A blue-green algae grown as a nutrient-dense food supplement, packed with protein, and sold in powder or tablet form.

from From the Latin 'spira,' meaning coil or spiral — because under a microscope, this cyanobacterium forms tight, helical filaments. Scientists classifying it in the 1800s named it for that shape. It's eaten by people in Chad and parts of Mexico long before 'superfood' marketing discovered it, having skimmed it from alkaline lakes for generations.