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restaurants or for personal consumption.
Keywords: Aphanothece sacrum; cyanobacterium; food intoxication; natural products; sacrolide A; suizenji-nori; Introduction
Cyanobacteria continue to be core sources for bioactive secondary metabolites [1][2], and their significance in drug discovery has increased
but mineral-rich freshwater such as spring-fed ponds with a narrow temperature range of 18 °C–20 °C [5] and forms thin crispate gelatinous floating colonies. The first record of this alga being consumed as food appeared 250 years ago. Various laver sheets, such as suizenji-nori, akizuki-nori, jusentai