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Q.Enriched vitamin tablets are produced from the following organism for human consumption :

(a) Mushroom
(b) Spirulina
(c) Nostoc
(d) Yeast
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Spirulina, a protein- and vitamin-rich cyanobacterium, is processed into vitamin-enriched dietary tablets.

Spirulina (genus Arthrospira) is a multicellular, filamentous, blue-green alga (cyanobacterium) that thrives in warm, alkaline lakes and can be mass-cultured in open ponds or bioreactors at low cost and high yield. Its biomass is unusually rich in complete protein (containing all essential amino acids), vitamin B12, beta-carotene, gamma-linolenic acid, iron and phycocyanin, which makes it a valuable single-cell-protein (SCP) source for combating malnutrition and vitamin deficiency; it is dried and compressed into tablets or sold as powder marketed as a nutritional supplement for humans and animal feed alike. Mushrooms are eukaryotic fungi valued as food but are not typically processed into enriched vitamin tablets in this sense; Nostoc is another nitrogen-f …

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