VARIANT OF GENUS CHLORELLA HAVING HIGH CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT AND HIGH CAROTENOID CONTENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain the subject variant excellent in color tone and physiologically active property and useful for health foods, raw materials or the like for coloring foods by selecting a green alga strain of the genus Chlorella having chlorophyll content and total carotenoid content each having a prescribed value or above, based on dried algal body when a green alga of the genus Chlorella is subjected to heterotrophic culture in a culture medium containing an organic substance as carbon source. SOLUTION: This variant of the genus Chlorella has =35 mg/g chlorophyll content and =5.0 mg/g total carotenoid content, based on dried algal body when a green alga of the genus Chlorella is subjected to heterotrophic culture in a culture medium containing an organic substance as a carbon source. Furthermore, the variant of the genus Chlorella is Chlorella regularis Y-21 strain, Y-31 strain or Y-33 strain.