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Algae as a surprising meat alternative and source of environmentally friendly protein (www.worldhealth.net)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With more of us looking for alternatives to eating animals, new research has found a surprising environmentally friendly source of protein -- algae.

The University of Exeter study has been published in The Journal of Nutrition and is the first of its kind to demonstrate that the ingestion of two of the most commercially available algal species are rich in protein which supports muscle remodeling in young healthy adults.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Those pills have pretty much the same colour as the food cubes in Farscape...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What did you think was in the good cubes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I think they mention the contents at some point, but I don't remember.