Edible insects: future prospects for food and feed security

By J. Ball. 2014

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1. Yu-shiang Wang
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3. Matan Shelomi
4. K. Barragán-Fonseca
5. H. Tan
6. J. V. van Loon
7. V. Varelas
8. M. Ruby

Citations in the corpus

• Food Wastes as a Potential new Source for Edible Insect Mass Production for Food and Feed: A review (2019, background): “, frying, boiling, drying) are factors that affect the nutritional composition of the reared insects [11].”
• State-of-the-art on use of insects as animal feed. (2014, background): “The house cricket Acheta domestica, Gryllus bimaculatus, Teleogryllus occipitalis, Teleogryllus mitratus, the short-tail cricket Brachytrupes portentosus and Tarbinskiellus portentosus are edible cricket species (van Huis et al., 2013).”
• Determinants of willingness to eat insects in the USA and India (2015, background): “The third is people in the developing world who traditionally consume and value insects (again, perhaps about 2 billion people; Van Huis et al., 2013).”
• Diseases in insects produced for food and feed (2015, background): “…limited number of important insect species, which are currently produced commercially for food and/ or feed (El Boushy, 1991; Hwangbo et al. , 2009; Van Huis et al. , 2013): • Orthoptera: Acheta domesticus , Grylloides sigillatus , Locusta migratoria and Schistocerca gregaria ; • Lepidoptera: B.…”
• The Introduction of Insect Meal into Fish Diet: The First Economic Analysis on European Sea Bass Farming (2019, background): “However, soybean meal has been criticized for generating high land-use competition and significant environmental deterioration [6,8], as well as for containing anti-nutritional factors that inflame the digestive tract of fish, having low palatability, and contributing few sulfur (methionine and cyst”
• Profiling consumers who are ready to adopt insects as a meat substitute in a Western society (2015, background): “This is consistent with the current positioning of insect-based foods such as termite-based crackers, Buqadilla (a snack made from chickpeas and mealworms) and Crikizz (a snack based on meal worms and cassava) (van Huis et al., 2013: 108).”
• Insects as food and feed: A review (2015, background): “The most popular edible beetle in the tropics, by far, is the palm weevil, Rynchophoru spp, a significant palm pest distributed throughout Africa, southern Asia and South America (van Huis et al., 2013).”