Once the algae is dried out, oil is cold pressed out of it, not dissimilar to pressing oil out of olives. One of the selling points for algae oil over other vegetable oils is its sustainability.

WHILE THE IDEA of algae oil sounds pretty gross to us, the substance has been popping up left and right online recently. Could something as repulsive sounding as oil made from algae really have ...

Micro-algae synthesize high levels of oil, carbohydrates and proteins from sunlight but only a few species are currently grown for health foods Researchers at the Scottish Association for Marine ...