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Edible insects in the food sector
“Edible insects in the food sector – Methods, current applications,and perspectives” is the new book from Springer. The book: explores the current state of entomophagy, including nutritional qualities, sensory properties, consumer preferences, food neophobia, and willingness-to-pay for insect-fed animals Provides case studies on timely topics such as health risks and allergies for human consumption, […]
Fucibo: 100% Made in Italy
Interview with Davide Rossi, Fucibo co-founder Hi Davide, so will we finally see 100% made-in-Italy insect-based products? That’s right. It was a long and hard job, but now we’re ready! A long period of gestation where we faced and overcome many obstacles, doing research and experiments, tasting a lot and brainstorming with intensity. The greatest […]
Report from Agroinsecta
The use of insects as a possible solution to reduce food waste and, at the same time, encourage the production of new materials useful to man. It is one of the examples of circular economy illustrated at the “Agroinsecta” conference held in Tortona, a moment of reflection on the experiments currently underway in the world […]