Insects: a protein-rich feed ingredient in pig and poultry diets

By T. Veldkamp, G. Bosch. Animal Frontiers, 2015

269 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The use of insects as a sustainable protein-rich feed ingredient in pig and poultry diets is technically feasible. Insects can turn low-grade biowaste into proteins. The amino acid profile of yellow mealworm, common housefly, and black soldier fly is close to the profile of soybean meal with methionine or methionine + cystine, which are generally the most limiting essential amino acids for growing pigs and broilers. Arginine can also become a limiting essential amino acid for broilers fed housefly pupae and mealworm. Additional research is recommended on digestibility of (processed) insects, inclusion levels in poultry and pig diets, functional properties, safety when using biowaste as a rearing substrate, extraction of nutrients, shelf life, and use of left-over substrates and residue products of insects. To compete with conventional protein sources and become an interesting link in the animal feed chain to fulfil the globally increasing demand for protein, cost price of insect production and processing should be further reduced.

Subfields: Insect Science, Social Psychology

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In Insect Science

1. F. Gai
2. L. Gasco
3. Yu-shiang Wang
4. G. Piccolo
5. S. Khan
6. Matan Shelomi

In Social Psychology

1. Yu-shiang Wang
2. S. Khan
3. Matan Shelomi
4. L. Gasco
5. G. Piccolo
6. F. Gai

Citations in the corpus

• Recent advances in role of insects as alternative protein source in poultry nutrition (2018, background): “This is reflected by a drastic increase of the market price for FM during the last ten years, which has given rise to the demand for a new and more sustainable protein source (Veldkamp and Bosch 2015).”
• The Introduction of Insect Meal into Fish Diet: The First Economic Analysis on European Sea Bass Farming (2019, background): “However, today, despite the prominent thinking about the potential key role of insect meal in protein production in terms of constant quantities, high quality, the stability of supply and price [18], and price reduction [37], the current price of insect meal is still not competitive with other prote”
• Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) Meal as a Promising Feed Ingredient for Poultry: A Comprehensive Review (2020, background): “In addition, defatted BSF larvae meal provides higher protein values and probably surpasses those in soybean meal [36].”
• Insect and fish by-products as sustainable alternatives to conventional animal proteins in animal nutrition (2020, background): “Among the species aforementioned, BSF, HF, and MW have the highest potential for largescale production (Veldkamp and Bosch 2015).”
• Partial or total replacement of soybean oil by black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens L.) fat in broiler diets: effect on growth performances, feed-choice, blood traits, carcass characteristics and meat quality (2017, background): “…Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. for industrial production in the Western world (Veldkamp & Bosch 2015).”
• Review of Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) as Animal Feed and Human Food (2017, background): “Rearing insects on human-inedible wastes and feeding them to larger food animals (whose wastes can even be fed to the insects in a partly closed circle of food energy) can boost the protein content of these animals [40] and is more environmentally friendly and efficient than growing fields of grains”