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Edible insects market in Europe
IPIFF recently released a very interesting factsheet about the edible insects market in Europe. Production, market and companies size, investments, consumers reached, maket share, forecasts and many more informations about the industry. Download the full document here: IPIFF-edible-insects-market-factsheet
Il destino del cibo
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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, […]
A cricket farm in NY
Interview with Adam Brody, founder of Cricket Farm New York Tell us how your interest for the edible insects world begun I first ate insects during a school field trip to a science museum when I was eight years old. Kids are always told “bugs are gross!” and it made a big impact on me, […]
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 […]
DL Novel Food on Kickstarter
DL Novel Food is the “made in Italy” startup founded by Luca Costamagna and Davide Storino who deals with the intensive production of crickets for the production of flours for animal and human food. Luca and Davide immediately realized that something in the traditional method of insect breeding did not work and that it would […]
Les Criquets Migrateurs
Interview with Sebastien Collin and Annie Ruelle-Sanguine, founders of Les Criquets Migrateurs Tell us about how you firts became interested in edible insects Everything started in 2011, when the french news broadcasted a short documentary about edible insects in Laos. Sébastien was studying biology, and he was in the middle of deciding where his studies […]
