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Table 4 Vitamins B content in microalgae (μg/g DW except for vitamins B7 and B12 in ng/g DW)

From: Challenging microalgal vitamins for human health

Phylum/class

Genus

Vitamin B1

Vitamin B2

Vitamin B3

Vitamin B5

Vitamin B6

Vitamin B7

Vitamin B9

Vitamin B12

Refs

Cyanobacteria

Anabaena

5.8

55

78

88

7

0.18

15

1.5

[72, 94]

Aphanizomenon

40

6

130

8

13

 

1

6

[95]

Arthrospira

10–23.8

33–45

0.13–149

13

9.6

 

0.27–4.8

0.50–6.6

[6, 94, 95]

Chlorophyta

Chlamydomonas

     

0.26

9

 

[72]

Chlorella

18–23

20–68

0.15–250

21.4–190

1.9–25

0.45–1.1

3.1–34

0.08–2.5

[6, 69, 72, 75, 95]

Dunaliella

9–29

9–31.2

10

5–13.2

2.2–4

0.9

0.4–53.7

0.04–0.7

[69, 74, 95]

Haematococcus

4.7

17

66

14

3.6

 

2.9

1.2

[95]

Picochlorum

      

64.7

 

[69]

Stichococcus

29

25

  

17

1.3

24

1.95

[77]

Tetradesmus

      

25.9

 

[69]

Tetraselmis

32.3–627

19.1–42

1410

37.7

2.8–155

0.8–1.3

3–20

1.95–9

[74, 77, 78]

Scenedesmus

 

46

    

6

 

[72]

Rhodophyta

Porphyridium

      

5.39

 

[69]

Bacillariophyceae

Chaetoceros

655

12

25

 

4

  

8

[78]

Skeletonema

710

37

511

 

134

  

117

[78]

Haptophyta

Isochrysis

14–462

14–30

2690

9.1

1.8–183

1

3

0.6–89

[74, 78]

Pavlova

36–290

6–50

955

 

4–8.4

1.9

23

1.7–1162

[77, 78]

Eustigmatophyceae

Microchloropsis

      

43.6

 

[69]

Nannochloropsis

70

22–25

0.12

 

3.6

1.1

17–22

0.3–1.7

[6, 77]

Ochromonadaceae

Poteriochromonas

 

27.57

  

4.86

   

[96]

Euglenozoa

Euglena

 

55.71

  

14.71

0.22

  

[96]