Pretty cool, don't see anything about them advocating for human consumption, just using it as animal feed. I don't agree with the claim "insects have the potential to be the world’s most sustainable protein", I'm still on team algae for that. An interesting step in insect farming if they can actually get it working and profitable, but doesn't change my opinion that mass scale, industrial insect production for consumption is something that's still decades away.
You can still eat them, though. There was a company that made bars that were made with powdered crickets. I don't really like it, but it's better to have an alternative than to put soy in everything and say you've produced 20% more food because the food now has 20% soy.
There was a company that made bars that were made with powdered crickets.
That's probably one of the few products where you can get away with it because they have to be processed to a point where you can't recognize them anymore.
A local supermarket had whole fried crickets as snacks for sale. Stale taste aside it takes a strong stomach to chow down on a whole cricket head, legs and all. Also lots of toothpicks because you'll be picking bits of exoskeleton out of your teeth for hours.
Their bodies aren't really crunchy anyway. I assume they're meant to be put in a brine for a while before frying.
The cricket powder is like the ground shrimp. It's dry so the bacteria don't decompose it. They use it more like a flour. I haven't tried it, but I hear the consistency is actually decent and not what many would expect. With all the flavoring and other ingredients, it's just like protein.
Pretty cool, don't see anything about them advocating for human consumption, just using it as animal feed. I don't agree with the claim "insects have the potential to be the world’s most sustainable protein", I'm still on team algae for that. An interesting step in insect farming if they can actually get it working and profitable, but doesn't change my opinion that mass scale, industrial insect production for consumption is something that's still decades away.
You can still eat them, though. There was a company that made bars that were made with powdered crickets. I don't really like it, but it's better to have an alternative than to put soy in everything and say you've produced 20% more food because the food now has 20% soy.
That's probably one of the few products where you can get away with it because they have to be processed to a point where you can't recognize them anymore.
A local supermarket had whole fried crickets as snacks for sale. Stale taste aside it takes a strong stomach to chow down on a whole cricket head, legs and all. Also lots of toothpicks because you'll be picking bits of exoskeleton out of your teeth for hours.
Their bodies aren't really crunchy anyway. I assume they're meant to be put in a brine for a while before frying.
The cricket powder is like the ground shrimp. It's dry so the bacteria don't decompose it. They use it more like a flour. I haven't tried it, but I hear the consistency is actually decent and not what many would expect. With all the flavoring and other ingredients, it's just like protein.