Arthrospira platensis/ Bhimavaram
We grow spirulina
in a shallow pond.
Dry, and alive.
Harvested at first light. In a hatchery by evening, still living — or dried the same day, gently enough that the pigment survives. Two-thirds protein either way.
We don't sell online. We answer people.
- Dry line
- Powder · flakes · tablets
- Live line
- Fresh paste · live culture
- We supply
- Hatcheries · feed mills · brands
- Tested at
- Ushara Aqua Labs, in-house
Spirulina is not a supplement.
It is a crop.
It is a microscopic blue-green filament, and it has been food for a very long time — lifted off lakes in Chad and in the Valley of Mexico centuries before anyone thought to call it a superfood.
What it does, it does by density. Roughly two-thirds of its dry weight is protein. The rest carries iron, B-vitamins and phycocyanin — the pigment that makes it blue under a lens and green in a pond, and the first thing careless drying destroys.
It needs sunlight, water and a little alkalinity to grow. In coastal Andhra we have a great deal of the first two, and the third we manage ourselves.
- 60–70%
- protein
- 16.5°N
- Bhimavaram
- TODO
- ponds
- TODO
- monthly capacity
by dry weight — the range is honest; it moves batch to batch
coastal delta latitude: strong sun for most of the year
under cultivation — confirm before launch
dry-equivalent kg — confirm before launch
One pond. Two products. The difference between them is a few hours of heat.
Line 01
Dry Spirulina
ఎండిన స్పిరులినా
TODO: photo — macro, dry powder
Harvested wet. Dried low. Nothing added.
Powder, flakes and tablets from a single strain, dried at low temperature so the pigment survives the process.
- Protein
- 60–70%
- Moisture
- TODO: %
- Pigment
- Phycocyanin
Line 02 — live
Wet / Live Spirulina
తాజా స్పిరులినా
It leaves the pond alive. It should reach you that way.
Fresh paste and live culture for hatcheries — filtered, chilled and moved the same day, because every hour after harvest costs you something.
- State
- Never dried
- Pigment
- Full phycocyanin & carotenoids
- Cold chain
- Chilled from harvest
TODO: photo — wet paste, close
Art dir.Held in a gloved hand at the pond edge, wet, catching light — dark blue-green, still dripping. Shot cold, in shade.
Everything that happens to it happens the same day.
Harvest is in the morning, while it is cool. By the afternoon the batch has been washed, pressed, and sent one of two ways — into a chill box, alive, or into the dryer. There is no warehouse in the middle of that sentence.
TODO: photo — pond at midday
- 01
Inoculum
Day 0
- 02
Cultivation
Weeks
- 03
Harvest
Morning
- 04
Wash & press
Same morning
- 05awet
Chilled — live line
Same day
- 05bdry
Dried — dry line
Same day, low heat
- 06
Quality control
Every batch
It goes into larval tanks. It goes into capsules. It is the same crop.
“Nothing leaves this place on a promise.”
Spirulina is grown in water, so water is the thing to control. That is convenient for us, because the company next door tests water for a living: Ushara Aqua Labs is a water-testing laboratory, run by the same family, on the same site.
It is a separate business with its own clients — but it is where our source water goes before a pond is inoculated, and where a sample from every batch goes before anything is dispatched. We are not sending our own homework out to be marked. We are just fortunate to have a lab in the family.
Checkpoints, every batch
- Before the batch
- Source water — the medium the crop is grown in.Ushara Aqua Labs
- During cultivation
- Pond condition, logged. TODO: which parameters and how oftenOn site
- At harvest
- Visual and microscope check of the culture before it is drawn off.On site
- After processing
- Finished-batch testing. TODO: exact panel — protein, moisture, microbial, heavy metals?Ushara Aqua Labs
- Kept
- A retained sample against every batch code, held here.On site
Tell us what you need.
What you are feeding, or what you are formulating. We will tell you honestly which line fits — and if neither does, we will say that too.
What happens next
- 01
You send it
The form, WhatsApp, or a phone call. Whichever is least effort for you.
- 02
A person replies
Within TODO: response time — e.g. one working day. Not an autoresponder.
- 03
We quote, and sample
Price depends on volume and distance, so it is quoted per enquiry. TODO: sample policy