Simpliigood for the conscious consumer – it can be challenging to find products that not only promote sustainability for the planet but actually offer the nutrition needed to sustain an energetic, adventure-filled lifestyle.

You’re not alone in wanting a more sustainable, wellness-oriented lifestyle. Healthy living has begun to blend with a desire for a more environmentally friendly lifestyle, and according to a 2016 survey, 62.4 percent of consumers preferred working out in a gym that uses environmentally friendly equipment. What about your nutrition needs? Where does a sustainable lifestyle come in?

Options like organic produce and grass-fed beef have become increasingly popular. But for an even more ecologically sound option, fresh spirulina can push your health and sustainability to the next level. That’s why simpliigood is called what it is: sustainable protein. As far back as 1974, the united nations named spirulina one of the best foods for the future, and in 2008, a un food and agriculture organization report proclaimed that there is a need for both national governments and intergovernmental organizations to re-evaluate the potential of spirulina to fulfill both their own food security needs as well as a tool for their overseas development emergency response efforts.

Simpliigood is a fresh, all-natural spirulina that’s the most nutrient-dense microalgae available, packed with all nine essential amino acids, plus antioxidants, vitamins -including a full range of B vitamins - and minerals. It is very low in fat and carbohydrates and holds mainly protein.

Spirulina is one of the few foods outside animal products that provide amino acids like leucine, and it has 670% more protein than soy-based tofu. Unlike soy crops, which demand space and water that cause issues like deforestation in Latin America, our spirulina is harvested sustainably: mindfully grown, harvested, and shipped to deliver the best, healthiest product to our consumers.

Spirulina production uses less water than any other crop - to produce a kilogram of spirulina, less than 500 liters of water is used. A comparable kilogram of rice uses 3400 liters, and beef uses a whopping 15,400 liters per kilogram. Even the pesticide-free water used to grow spirulina isn’t wasted: the small percentage of water changed out of ponds where spirulina is harvested is recycled for agriculture around our production facility. Not only does it conserve water, but it has yielded significant increases in crop yield because of the highly nutritious content of the water we’re recycling, and no pesticide or herbicide runoff in the process.

The entire harvested spirulina is used, unlike in other fruit and vegetable crops, where the root, stem, and leaf systems are by-products. A recent report showed that even at harvest, almost 40 percent of vegetables are tossed for being ‘ugly’, a problem that a micro-algae will never have, and the entirety of the plant is used: simpliigood offers almost five grams of protein per 27-calorie serving, plus a 95 percent absorption rate so that no nutrients and amino acids are left undigested and processed. Compare that to using dried and powdered forms: laboratory tests have shown that vitamins, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids are destroyed at rates of 30 to 90 percent during processing and drying. Because Simpliigood’s frozen and fresh delivery system preserves virtually all the nutrients present at harvest, nothing is wasted in the process.