Table 1. Chemical composition of various species of microalgae

Species of microalgae	Carbohydrates	Protein	Lipids	Total dietary fiber	References
Chlorella vulgaris	20.99	15.67	41.51	15	Alfaia et al. (2021); Chia et al. (2015)
Spirulina platensis	30.21	13.3	48.36	14.98	Seghiri et al. (2019)
Chlorella sorokiniana	35.67	9.9	18.81	13.5	Chia et al. (2015); Niccolai et al. (2019)
Nannochloropsis oceanica	22.7	24.8	19.1	20	Zanella and Vianello (2020)
Scenedesmus obliquus	13.41	4.66	30.38	19.37	Ferreira et al. (2020)
Dunaliella tertiolecta	21.69	2.87	61.32	9.06	Araj‐Shirvani et al. (2024)
Dunaliella salina	32	57	9	48.82	Shantkriti et al. (2023)
Scenedesmus dimorphus	36.5	13	28	32.7	Tapia-López et al. (2024)
Chlorococum humicola	32.5	-	-	24.5	Yang et al. (2022)
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii	22.6	64.7	12.6	11.9	Darwish et al. (2020)
Spirogyra sp.	48.5	13	16	37	Sriwattana et al. (2024)
Porphyridium cruentum	48.5	33.5	11.5	21.7	Castro‐Varela et al. (2021)
D. salina	85.58	8.46	11.47	0.8	Demirel (2022)
Arthrospira platensis	42.08	14.95	6.5	42.82	Markou et al. (2023)
Scenedesmus almeriensis	49.4	24.6	1.58	22.6	Sánchez-Zurano et al. (2021)
Haematococcus pluvialis	32.59	0.13	3.24	34.56	Marinho et al. (2021)
C. vulgaris	45.64	59.71	19	21.16	Ricky et al. (2022)