1. What is Phycocyanin?
Phycocyanin is a dark blue powder isolated from Spirulina. It mainly exists in cyanobacteria, red algae and cryptoalgae. Phycocyanin is also generally divided into C-phycocyanin and r-phycocyanin. The former mainly exists in cyanobacteria, while the latter mainly exists in red algae. There are both kinds of cyanobacteria. Its function is to absorb light (orange yellow) energy and transmit light energy. It is not only a protein, but also an excellent natural food pigment, and also a good health food.
Phycocyanin is one of the rare pigment proteins in nature. It is not only bright in color, but also a nutrient rich protein with complete amino acid composition and high content of essential amino acids.
Phycocyanin has the functions of anti-cancer, promoting blood cell regeneration, maintaining ovary and promoting the synthesis of elastin in human body. At the beginning of the 21st century, in Europe, America, Japan and other countries, phycocyanin was widely used as a high-grade natural pigment in food and cosmetics, and was made into biochemical drugs.
2.Phycocyanin benefits
Phycocyanin can help regulate and synthesize a variety of important enzymes required by human metabolism. It plays an important role in inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, promoting the regeneration of human cells, maintaining the ovary and promoting the synthesis of elastin in the human body. At the same time, phycocyanin regulates the human immune system, enhances the function of the immune system and improves the resistance of the human body to diseases. Therefore, phycocyanin is known as "Food Diamond" by food experts. It has good effects in the following aspects.
1. Anti cancer cells, anti-tumor.
Phycocyanin has been shown to inhibit the expansion of cancer cells. Scientists have found that phycocyanin has an obvious function of inhibiting cancer cells. It can be made into anti-tumor adjuvant therapy drugs, and the adjuvant therapy for chemotherapy can enhance the immunity of the body. In a scientific experiment, rats with liver cancer were fed with extracted phycocyanin. It was found that the survival rate of rats fed with phycocyanin was much higher than that of the control group. After 5 weeks, 90% of the rats in the treatment group survived, while only 25% of the rats in the untreated group survived. After 8 weeks, 25% of the rats in the treatment group survived and all the rats in the untreated group died. This indicates that oral phycocyanin can improve the survival rate of organisms with cancer.
2. Antioxidant and free radical scavenging.
Phycocyanin can promote cell activity, eliminate free radicals in the body, improve ovarian function, and promote the rapid synthesis of elastin. According to scientific research, phycocyanin can stimulate the formation of red blood cell colonies, which is similar to erythropoietin (EPO); It can adjust white blood cells and improve lymphocyte activity; It can enhance the body's immune function and promote the growth of red blood cells.
3. Anti allergy
The research team of National Taiwan University published new research results on January 7, and found that the purified phycocyanin has inhibitory effect on all allergies.
Another role of phycocyanin is as a fluorescent agent.
3.Application
(1) Natural food pigment: phycocyanin is a water-soluble pigment, non-toxic, pure blue, clear and lovely, and can be used as food colorant and cosmetic additive.
(2) Medical and health food: phycocyanin in vitro experiment can stimulate the formation of red blood cell colonies, similar to erythropoietin (EPO). Foreign countries have successfully developed a variety of phycocyanin complex drugs,
(3) Special reagents for biological, chemical and cytological experiments: phycocyanin is blue and has fluorescence. It can be used as some photodynamic research reagents for biology and cytology.
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