Ask “who makes the world’s phycocyanin” and you’ll get one answer by volume, and a meaningfully different one by quality-focused...
Phycocyanin Beyond the Cafe Counter: Where Blue Spirulina Is Showing Up in Packaged Food
The cafe drink is the headline. The retail shelf is where the volume actually is. While viral cafe lattes get...
How to Vet a Phycocyanin Supplier: A Sourcing Checklist for Food, Beverage & Cosmetic Brands
Two suppliers can quote you “phycocyanin” at wildly different prices, and both can technically be telling the truth. The difference...
Natural Blue Food Colors Compared: Where Phycocyanin Fits Among Butterfly Pea, Spinach, and Red Cabbage
Blue is the hardest color in nature to get right — which is exactly why there are several competing “natural...
From Pond to Powder: How Blue Spirulina (Phycocyanin) Is Actually Made
Every drum of phycocyanin started as a living, growing organism in a body of water — and how that water...
Blue Spirulina in Animal Nutrition: Why Aquafeed and Poultry Producers Are Adopting Phycocyanin
Long before phycocyanin was coloring lattes, spirulina was already in fish tanks and feed troughs — for reasons that have...
Phycocyanin in Cosmetics: Why Clean Beauty Brands Are Turning to Blue Spirulina
The ingredient turning cafe lattes blue is now turning up on skincare ingredient lists — and for largely the same...
Blue Spirulina vs. Brilliant Blue FCF: Why the World Is Replacing Synthetic Blue Dye With Phycocyanin
Brilliant Blue FCF (FD&C Blue No. 1) is facing a global regulatory phase-out. Here's why phycocyanin — natural blue spirulina extract — is emerging as its direct replacement, and what brands need to know.
Starbucks Just Launched Blue Spirulina Drinks. Here’s What It Actually Means for Cafes Worldwide.
Starbucks' 2026 Blue Coconut lineup uses blue spirulina (phycocyanin) for color. Here's what that signals for independent cafes, ingredient sourcing, and the natural colorant market.
Is Blue Spirulina the New Matcha? What It Would Take for Phycocyanin to Start a Cafe Revolution
Matcha didn't go mainstream on flavor alone — it went mainstream on infrastructure. Here's an honest comparison of where blue spirulina (phycocyanin) stands today, and what's still missing.
