{"id":184845,"date":"2024-03-10T12:23:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T17:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-vital-food-source-after-a-catastrophe-overlooked-plant-could-help-reduce-food-insecurity"},"modified":"2024-03-10T12:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T17:23:50","slug":"a-vital-food-source-after-a-catastrophe-overlooked-plant-could-help-reduce-food-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-vital-food-source-after-a-catastrophe-overlooked-plant-could-help-reduce-food-insecurity","title":{"rendered":"A Vital Food Source After a Catastrophe \u2014 Overlooked Plant Could Help Reduce Food Insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-vital-food-source-after-a-catastrophe-overlooked-plant-could-help-reduce-food-insecurity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An often-overlooked water plant that can double its biomass in two days, capture nitrogen from the air \u2014 making it a valuable green fertilizer \u2014 and be fed to poultry and livestock could serve as life-saving food for humans in the event of a catastrophe or disaster, a new study led by <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/penn-state-university\/\">Penn State<\/a> researchers suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Native to the eastern U.S., the plant, azolla caroliniana Willd \u2014 commonly known as Carolina azolla \u2014 also could ease food insecurity in the near future, according to findings recently published in <em><i>Food Science &amp; Nutrition<\/i><\/em>. The researchers found that the Carolina strain of azolla is more digestible and nutritious for humans than azolla varieties that grow in the wild and also are cultivated in Asia and Africa for livestock feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An often-overlooked water plant that can double its biomass in two days, capture nitrogen from the air \u2014 making it a valuable green fertilizer \u2014 and be fed to poultry and livestock could serve as life-saving food for humans in the event of a catastrophe or disaster, a new study led by Penn State researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}