Table 2.

Vitamin C content in microalgae

Phylum/class	Genus	Vitamin C	Refs
Cyanobacteria	Anabaena	2.00	[72]
Chlorophyta	Chlamydomonas	2.00	[72]
	Chlorella	0.10–15	[72, 74, 75]
	Dunaliella	0.16–2.2	[74, 76, 83]
	Nannochloris	5.24	[83]
	Scenedesmus	2.00	[72]
	Stichococcus	2.50	[77]
	Tetraselmis	0.19–3	[74, 77, 78]
Bacillariophyceae	Chaetoceros	0.12–18.79	[78, 83]
	Skeletonema	0.06–6.7	[13, 78, 83]
	Thalassiosira	1.79	[83]
Haptophyta	Isochrysis galbana	0.12–4.45	[74, 78, 83]
	Pavlova lutheri	0.84–1.3	[77, 78, 83]
Eustigmatophyceae	Nannochloropsis	2.50–6.04	[77, 83]
Ochromonadaceae	Chroomonas	2.13	[83]
Euglenozoa	Euglena gracilis	1.82	[79]

Values are expressed as mg/g DW of ascorbic acid