Fresh-frozen spirulina is live spirulina, flash-frozen within 24 hours of harvest into ready-to-blend cubes — instead of being heat-dried into powder. One ingredient: spirulina and water. Because it's frozen rather than dried, it stays virtually flavor-free and keeps its heat-sensitive compounds intact. Here's exactly what that means.
Spirulina is grown in greenhouse pools of food-grade fresh water and harvested daily — alive and vivid green.
Within 24 hours of harvest the fresh biomass is flash-frozen — no heat, no drying, no powdering.
It's frozen into pre-measured cubes you drop straight into a blender. One ingredient, zero mess.
That 24-hour window is the whole idea. Most spirulina on the shelf is dried — heated and milled into a shelf-stable powder. Drying is what gives spirulina its swampy, fishy reputation and costs some of its most delicate compounds. Freezing fresh spirulina, the way you'd freeze fruit, skips all of that.
Taste. Fresh-frozen spirulina is virtually flavor-free — a cube disappears into a fruit smoothie. Dried powder tastes distinctly fishy and takes the whole glass over.
Heat-sensitive nutrients. Phycocyanin (the blue antioxidant) and chlorophyll are sensitive to the heat used in drying. Freezing keeps them intact and the color vivid.
Convenience. No measuring, no clumping, no green dust — just a pre-portioned cube. The one trade-off: cubes live in the freezer, so powder still wins for travel. See the complete breakdown in fresh vs. powder spirulina.
A 2-cube serving (28 g) delivers 2 g of complete plant protein, 10% of the Daily Value for iron and vitamin C — for just 10 calories, with no fat and no sugar. See what's inside spirulina in full, or dig into spirulina and iron. Then drop a cube into one of our recipes.
Spirulina harvested fresh and flash-frozen within 24 hours — instead of heat-dried into powder — and portioned into ready-to-blend cubes. SimpliiGood cubes are one ingredient: spirulina and water. Freezing keeps them virtually flavor-free and preserves heat-sensitive compounds like phycocyanin and chlorophyll.
For taste and heat-sensitive nutrients, yes — drying concentrates the fishy flavor and degrades phycocyanin and chlorophyll, while freezing avoids both. Powder still wins on shelf life and portability. See the full fresh vs. powder comparison.
SimpliiGood grows spirulina in greenhouse pools of fresh water, harvests daily, and flash-freezes the fresh biomass within 24 hours into pre-portioned cubes — no drying, no powdering. From pool to freezer, like frozen fruit.
No. The fishy taste comes from drying spirulina into powder. Fresh-frozen spirulina is virtually flavor-free, so a cube disappears into a fruit smoothie.
At 260+ stores across the US — check the freezer aisle. Use the store locator to find the closest one, or order online to have it shipped frozen.
Keep exploring in the Spirulina Learning Center, or compare fresh vs. powder.