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Eating Jumiles in Mexico
Maria Clemente made this interesting interview in a market in Mexico. It’s about the best way to consume stink bugs, Jumiles as the mexicans say. For us western people this is an extreme entofood, but in Mexico it’s considered a delicacy!
The food Neophobia
The present study provides new insights into the acceptance of trying and consuming a novel food (edible insect) and identifies the main determinants driving this when an unfamiliar food product is introduced into a Western culture. In this research a house cricket was incorporated into a common type of jelly sweet. These types of novelty […]
Podcast: Wow factor
Another great podcast from Ento Nation. Cheryl Preyer of NACIA gave a talk at the Eating Insects Athens Conference back in August in which she spoke about “The Wow Factor”
Sensory study on edible insects
The aim of this study made by the Food and Drug Department – University of Parma (Italy) was to investigate how sensory-liking attribute perceptions (appearance, taste and organoleptic characteristics) can change between a readily visible vs a processed insect product before and after tasting. Results indicate that texture and appearance of the insect are perceived […]
Cooking insects in Iowa
Interview with Javon Latimore, photographer, entomologist and cooking instructor Tell us a little about you and how you met the edible insects world While attending Iowa State University, I learned that we have the 3rd largest entomological literature collection in the nation. I believe I was in the library the following few days exploring my […]
A peculiar dinner
Entomophagy is currently a hot topic on newspapers and the media, especially after January 1st 2018, when the European Parliament approved the Regulation 2015/2283, in which the entire category of insects (“food consisting of, isolated from or produced from animals or their parts”) was formally included among Novel foods. After one year of research about […]
Maria Clemente joined our team
I am Maria, I’m 26 and I am an evolutionary biologist with the passion for insects’ world; and I talk about “world” thinking of the incredible variety of ecological niches that insects can colonize. At the beginning, I got interested into the use of insects as food and feed because of their key potential in […]
