Is algae the food of the future? | Mission Ahead
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In the middle of the New Mexican desert there's a company called iWi that's farming algae for people to eat. Could this miracle marine plant feed our growing population?
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Turn it into a protein powder, and you have a winner. Most protein powders aren't complete proteins. But if algae is, it stands to reason that it can replace many of the soy-based protein powders on the market.
@Brandon-305
6 жыл бұрын
MisterZ3r0 for sure bro
@olivierlavau-wira6991
6 жыл бұрын
Soy based protein ??? You clearly do not not the market.
@1vaoracle
6 жыл бұрын
MisterZ3r0 soy sucks.....you are correct Mister
@mattias1099
6 жыл бұрын
I'd buy it!
@gi295
6 жыл бұрын
They never said it was a complete protein, they said it has all the essential amino acids, only 6 out of the 21 amino acids are considered essential. Although having all the essential ones is helpful.
Algae Protein Chips..who wants to invest with me?..lol
@adamburns483
6 жыл бұрын
brandon rag34 I’m down
@Brandon-305
6 жыл бұрын
Jimiloe Hendrixoe ok cool bro.
@harristengku7153
6 жыл бұрын
brandon rag34 don't fucking move
@rohilkhatiwoda
6 жыл бұрын
Here's a small loan of a million dollar 💵💸 *ENJOY!*
@apoorvjaiswal3760
6 жыл бұрын
Me too
Lmao, they are standing on the food of the future so that means we have another kind of foot lettuce
Vegans go insane seeing this video.
@lizardzilla
5 жыл бұрын
Technically algae isn't a plant but it isn't an animal either
@lumbermcray5097
5 жыл бұрын
@@lizardzilla teachnically its an alternative.
@sarafernandes7392
5 жыл бұрын
who can blame us, this is pretty awsome!
@DenaStrawberry
5 жыл бұрын
lizard zilla vegans eat everything but animals. It doesnt matter if its not a plant. As long as its not alive
@user-gh6zh6dx7m
5 жыл бұрын
Vee ٓ i eat paper
I'm a little upset at the very limited use case they showed here, would be nice if they found more and better ways to use it than pills and cookies...
Or we can let Thanos get all the infinity stones💀💀💀
@djibsondjibson6442
6 жыл бұрын
imhungry208 😂
@bighoss7437
6 жыл бұрын
imhungry208 wow thanks for spoiling it
@tonybird6403
6 жыл бұрын
Big Hoss he didnt really spoil anything
@TrapTherapy
6 жыл бұрын
imhungry208 true
@karamjnah976
6 жыл бұрын
yeah why not let him have it his own way he definitely though about the future of everyone unlike Thor who thinks only about his own kind it's a 50/50 gamble
Even if humans don't eat it it can still be used for livestock feed or other industrial products like amino acids, biodiesel
I'd give it a shot
This is what Monty dreamed of. #the100
@Kong_plays
5 жыл бұрын
+1
@einotorkkel1918
5 жыл бұрын
The best series i have ever watched!
@bleach3063
4 жыл бұрын
"Do better..." -Monty
@beeboo4147
4 жыл бұрын
exactly why i'm here
@CAJ-yp2oe
4 жыл бұрын
Make algea not war.
is the future the future of the future?
@the77th
6 жыл бұрын
90days dude I’m SOOOO ANGRY THAT IM LAUGHING SOOO HARD ! 😂😂😂
@akzebraminer5679
6 жыл бұрын
90days Lmao
@aeshyaabijith2225
6 жыл бұрын
77tele yes yez it is
@samukelondlovu7876
6 жыл бұрын
The future is the future of the future because of the future
@symetryn
6 жыл бұрын
But isn't future the past of the future of the previous future ??
Monty Green from the 100 would be proud
@Nilvolentibusje
5 жыл бұрын
Was thinking the whole time about it hahaha The future is near
@bdsmlover4454
5 жыл бұрын
Don’t let Octavia near this
@DenaStrawberry
5 жыл бұрын
RIP monty
@jeffthechristian5296
5 жыл бұрын
i waas about to comment :D
@esteredriba8736
5 жыл бұрын
we stan a green queen
So your telling me that someone looked at algae and said man that looks good to eat/drink...
@r3dp1ll
6 жыл бұрын
it's already present in tons of foods you eat
@Alex-vz2jz
6 жыл бұрын
Becoming Vincent what... Is there a type of food they use it on or is it at the point where it's pretty much what ever you eat it's in there
@MrDingsYT
6 жыл бұрын
No
@wg9601
6 жыл бұрын
alex miranda Yes. Humans have been eating it for a long time. Seaweed found in sushi is just another strain of algea
@Daisy-pr5bj
6 жыл бұрын
Isnt it better to feed the animals this and we eat the animals
2:57 "They're eating her...and they're going to eat me....OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!"
Why i don’t see this on shelves yet?? Algae’s a super food!💪💪💪
"Algae is the future" - RIP Monty Green
@esteredriba8736
5 жыл бұрын
press f for respec
Algeas are such wonderful Allrounders! From chair to salad, to powder and supplements - and clothings, too!
Great information! This addresses the concern of mine that affects everyone. I’ve watched Cowspiracy on Netflix, and it opened my eyes about the biggest environmental threat related to our food system. It’s a must watch!
I've been eating this (and products from blue-green algea) for over a decade now...since 2009 - still alive and kicking ;)
honestly, I hope stuff like this does become everyday food, as the problem with livestock using so much of our resources (AND vegetables/fruits) has become such a huge problem
As chef i would really take an initiative to introduce this into my menu
Soylent Green.
@SkoolieBoyQue
6 жыл бұрын
It begins!
@tilt0323
6 жыл бұрын
It's people
@tilt0323
6 жыл бұрын
No.... It's not people... It's algae. ? .... Could I have some people please?
@tilt0323
5 жыл бұрын
Gerardo Davila No I didn't. But I do talk to myself on occasion so give it some time.
@ZomBeeNature
5 жыл бұрын
I was trying to find a comment about Soylent Green!
Well, if you follow protocol, edible varieties of seaweed (algae of the sea, in Spanish) can be like spinach, etc. People that are unwilling to eat it still need enough iodine for endocrine health (e.g. thyroid gland), so the U.S. government ensures that almost all table salts contain iodine.
@shreyanss
6 жыл бұрын
i think iodine in salt is a worldwide norm , not just u.s.
@cool06alt
5 жыл бұрын
Not all Microalgae need to be from saltwater variant, freshwater variant do exist
3:04 that laugh lol
Aztecs where eating Spirulina grown from their lakes they lived on. It was a self sustaining city of the future, from the past.
It's a prototype for Monty's algae
Oh god float me now
@ManCatCheese
6 жыл бұрын
is that a 100 reference? because im dying rn hahha
@42O-
6 жыл бұрын
Captain YumYum Haha Yes it is😂
@gloomsouls
4 жыл бұрын
😂
Mom: honey what do you want for dinner?! Son: mama i want some algae
Monty will love that algae farm
3:06 OMG REALLY!? NEVER KNEW THAT!!!
@mohit5496
3 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
When will it be in grocery stores? What are the health benefits?
@Troph2
6 жыл бұрын
it already is, look up algea supplements
Are they public, can i buy stocks? If so what is the stock name
I feel like a problem would be that while this could serve as a way to make food healthier, it’s not going to drive out larger types of agriculture/ food cultivation. People are still going to want their variety of different food options and the algae farms are just providing another variety to food ,not solving the issue of resource overuse. It’s also possible that this could ironically could end up contributing to the issue a small amount as well.
so since when has algae been considered a plant "crop"?
@C18H19NaO5S
Жыл бұрын
Since it’s been farmed.
i hope they can get the price down to low enough to use as animal fodder, if they can get down lower than that, then other conventional farmlands can be diverted to human consumption crops, and they can still revolutionize the industry of animal fodder production. I can still eat my meat. and the world still gets more food total. i don't tink they're gonna succeed in getting ppl to eat algae as a normal thing.
@adamklam1
6 жыл бұрын
I suppose I'm a pessimist, butI mean, there's food enough to feed the world right now, yet we still raise livestock for meat now whilst others starve. I suspect it wont be any different in the future. I feel like the likelihood of people adopting algae and giving up meat seems lower than that of converting algae to livestock feed, whilst a portion of the world goes hungry. Theres plenty of things that we know we should do to prepare for the future, but won't, and instead quietly let others fall through the cracks and pretend we have nothing to do with the outcome. that's just how things have worked out for the last few hundred years.
@Paul-fp3qn
6 жыл бұрын
adamklam1 I'll still eat meat 50 years from now. It tastes good man and rewarding when you hunt it yourself.
@Q_QQ_Q
6 жыл бұрын
market meat maybe gone . but meat as a food will never be gone .
@hellomynameis3922
6 жыл бұрын
Paul - I love eating cows!! Sadly :( I recently when on a healty kick. I'm pretty much only eating vegetables, fruits and chicken and fish every day but Sunday. On sundays those cows better look out boy!! Lol
girl:it tastes like a normal sugar cookie man: i have been in the food business for 20 years. haha
I would eat it as some sort of veggie, not just supplement. I love wakame and hijiki seaweed salad, so I bet I would enjoy meals that include algae in a clever way. But as of now, it's expensive to get these things in middle Europe which is sad. It's the future that can't come soon enough.
mmm is the 100 starting?
The only problem is making the Americans eat them😕
Where can I buy thier stock?
I’m so glad they put the algae into the cookies. Don’t think I would be able to stomach just the algae
Just feed it to cattle lol
@youtubeuser-ky1wg
6 жыл бұрын
Shopnil Cat but it doesnt solve the issue of land and water usage.
@hopelessgaming2732
6 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the greenhouse gas
@barnaclehead1894
6 жыл бұрын
Factz you don't know how selective breeding works...do you?
@michaelmichael5065
6 жыл бұрын
lol
@danielmachado608
6 жыл бұрын
read about biomagnification. breeding cattle is wastefull
i hope not
Yea that green goo looks very appealing to my taste
Great video - thanks:)
well... monty green says it is.
@Kong_plays
5 жыл бұрын
i was going to say that ):
@vanilla7266
5 жыл бұрын
you can take half the credit- monty green would have wanted us to
The 100 :D
Me and my friend are having a project about algae and we were surprised to know more about it...... We are 12 years old.....
@wildandfree7883
4 жыл бұрын
Wish us luck guys....
Being able to grow productively in ocean water is a big selling point. It would probably do very well in competition for desert growth real estate. The strain of Spirulina that I developed for norther growing in winter can grow in ocean water, and we use evaporated seawater as part of it's nutritional needs, but it doesn't do as well in ocean water as it does it fresh water. Of course, we can also fully recycle our water usage, and by covering the tanks we don't have losses due to evaporation. (Spirulina, btw, is a cyanobacteria. Not an algae. That gives it an advantage over algae, which cannot be fully digested without processing due to it's cellulose based cell walls. Another advantage is that algae cannot be legally grown in most US cities. It's also 65% protein, and likewise has all the nutrients humans need, except for Vitamin D)
Looks like a nuclear test site😂
Im very down 👍
Just as long as someone(s) clean the algae in our ponds, rivers, lakes, oceans in the United States Makes this action quick meaning right now " we the people " do not want this floating any of our public waters Thank you very much
*this exist* Other big food companies: "That's a no no so you gonna go go"
Well humans have been eating seaweeds and so on for generations so it's not a surprise. Also, hydroponics is a real technology we are researching towards.
@why_ami_here1916
6 жыл бұрын
Thats already happening though:p its just that most farms havent followed the new way of farming
@Luna86351
6 жыл бұрын
humans been seaweeds? please explain.
@jackrush1222
5 жыл бұрын
evolution..... I guess?
@Luna86351
5 жыл бұрын
@@jackrush1222 i can't remember that there was a single time in human evolution, where our organism survived by photosynthesis. XD
@gtabraham3454
5 жыл бұрын
@@jackrush1222 evolution is nonsense. The whole logic is that nothing became something then exploded and everything then things changed and progressed over millions of years and now we're human. That's nonsense. There's a creator, that makes much more sense then nothing created everything. People often pose the question, then what or who may God? Well God always has been and always will be. He's the infinite.
Wait did I hear the word aquifer? Thats not totally sustainable then And have a look at 3:40 with all that salt water corroding all the metal
@bhuvankrishnaravula1357
6 жыл бұрын
You've got a sharp eye. But I think the issue can be handled. Ships sail in oceans for thousands of kilometers. They don't rust right ?
@de0509
6 жыл бұрын
The ships are painted and sometimes have sacrificial metals stuck on the hull. Probably dont want either of those in the food
@jackrush1222
5 жыл бұрын
why not use plastic for the inside of the tubes then?
@de0509
5 жыл бұрын
And then you get microplastics because it all needs to be sitting in the sun and the suns rays can have enough energy to break the covalent bonds in plastics
@jesuschrist6705
5 жыл бұрын
how about instead of sunlight use those UV lights and put the algea inside
im looking foward to this
This is a great idea. I would love to see what will become in the future.
Cant wait to have an All Gae Sandwich
In the movie Matrix people were also eating some goop outside the Matrix. This is scary...
@hegugs
5 жыл бұрын
how is this scary?
@Arturas002
5 жыл бұрын
@@hegugs because it foreshadows the end of humanity
@hegugs
5 жыл бұрын
@@Arturas002 Because a company harvest algae for food? Are you fucking serious?
Thanks monty for the algae
Really appreciate this thanks
Vegans: *OH MY LORD*
@pseudonymousbeing987
4 жыл бұрын
Why tho? I've seen a number of these comments and I don't get it. What am I supposed to be mad about?
Yes but can we digest it?? If we could, humans would have been eating it since we were apes!!
@brandonn.1275
6 жыл бұрын
If you've eaten sushi then the seaweed wrap is made out of algea, in truth we've probably eaten the stuff longer than you'd think it's just that we've never scaled up usage of it until recently.
@MikeStantonOfficial
6 жыл бұрын
Ancient civilizations have all over the world consumed algae in some way shape or form.
@olivierlavau-wira6991
6 жыл бұрын
You are already eating this since a long time...
@cool06alt
5 жыл бұрын
Lots of plant are only cultivated recently by the way, this dont prove that you can't change your diet just because your ancestor never done that.
@apdroidgeek1737
5 жыл бұрын
what a weird question btw we can digest meat why not an algae..?
I'm just wondering how you cook it
This is the future indeed. This is the next gold mine I heard.
It will be a supplement to our current food....IE real food will be for the rich Algae will be for everyone else. Crops and cattle will have reduce production after algae takes off for environmental reasons. Then it will become extremely expensive so no one but the rich can afford it. Forcing others to pay for algae at the same cost regular food is today. Even though they will in the beginning promote it being a cheap alternative especially for the poor.
Nah bro I ain’t eating shrek’s puke imma stick with Big Mac
is this vest the uniform for everybody who works there?
Dude this is incredible
ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING
@whattheactualfuck2593
6 жыл бұрын
Did you ever tried it? no? Then how do you want to know that it's disgusting? Give it a chance.
@negan4089
6 жыл бұрын
@@whattheactualfuck2593 does it taste like bacon?
@melmardiamond
5 жыл бұрын
Negan what a dumb ass question, I thought you would be smarter than this Negan
How about going vegan? Easy and affordable..
@Neojhun
6 жыл бұрын
THINK, this is the resource we need for that.
@Troph2
6 жыл бұрын
are you really gonna get butthurt over single cell organisms?
@sako5751
6 жыл бұрын
But less efficient that algea. Its all about efficiency!
@Verradonairun
6 жыл бұрын
and idiotic.
@fkujakedmyname
6 жыл бұрын
how about vegan steaks easy affordable cant run and all organic
I'm surprised the ponds aren't fully enclosed, considering the water is being recycled and is in the desert, and there is a chance of infection with wild types that produce bmaa
I would like to try this!!
god give me an algae mix mango juice, sounds good and amazing
The thumbnail looks like something from Alien and she's like "Hell yea I'm gonna die"
it would definitely taste like those green sushi wrappers i like those
Anyone else hear the distance screaming of "Soylent green is PEOPLE!!" xD
ya know those water balls someone made before? why not do something like that, edible algae balls xD
1:37 but what about evaporation and an increase in salt-levels?
I want to try an algae cookie now 👀
Holy shit that looks so appetizing! Said no one.
isnt' Algae a byproduct of oxidation when there are organic microbes in the water i.e poop?
Algae bar sounds good !
this is so amazing
This video is great
The 100. Monty will love this!
“Mom can i have some algae nuggets?”
Use Pre-Flood environmental conditions and you can use just a fraction of the total land area. We have other technologies that were discovered in the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. By combing them all together in a integrated system to produce a synergistic process we were able to mass produce edible food micro-algae by the hundreds of metric tons per day with just one unit inside a small warehouse.
Eatting seaweed everyday seem like a bad idea
You're a perfect couple, one is beautiful and one is a rich guy saving the world.
what if you use this algae as a fertilizer for tastier more desirable crops?
All that salt is rusting the tillers and metals around them is it safe to eat that much rust ?
Searched for this because of Monty and I also get curious what it tastes like
have they thought about vertical farming instead of using so many lands?
I love it. Keep it up.
Now all we need is nutrient paste dispensers and with a few combinations, we can have *ahem nutritious slop all day everyday :D Could algae be used in a paper form to act as a wrapper instead of seaweed for sushi? Its saltiness would complement the rice and sushi ingredients.
I would try it.
5:34 he missed one part MAKE IT LooK GOoD
algae bread? If It's in a powder form could it be mixed with water, yeast to produce a dough, has there been any research done on this!
Great video
if humans wont eat it, it can always be used as fertaliser or to feed live stock surely?