Insect-Based Bioconversion: Value from Food Waste
By T. Fowles, C. Nansen. Food Waste Management, 2019
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Fowles and Nansen’s chapter discusses insect-based bioconversion. When insects are mass produced under controlled conditions, they can break down significant quantities of food waste. Further, as the insects consume this waste, they produce multiple valuable commodities, such as insect biomass (proteins, lipids), pharmaceuticals, biofuels, lubricants, and fertilizer from their excrement. This process is called bioconversion and will be a serious contender among food waste treatment options in the coming decades. Insect bioconversion is gaining traction both as a research topic and as a business opportunity. Fowles and Nansen discuss both the need to increase capacity and to maximize the potential benefits of using insects as bioconverters of food waste. They provide both theoretical and practical solutions for expanding insect-based bioconversion to food waste streams.
Subfields: Food Science, Insect Science, Marketing
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Citations in the corpus
- The potential of insect protein to reduce food-based carbon footprints in Europe: The case of broiler meat production (2021, background): “When insects are mass produced, they can also contribute to the bioconversion of large quantities of food waste (Salomone et al., 2017; Fowles and Nansen, 2020; Guo et al., 2020; Ites et al., 2020).”
- Insect and fish by-products as sustainable alternatives to conventional animal proteins in animal nutrition (2020, background): “restrictions in the use of wastes and other poor substrates (Pinotti et al. 2019; Sogari et al 2019b; Fowles and Nansen 2020).”