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First bite: Soft serve ice cream with mealworm topping debuts in Sweden

February 03, 2023 -

The "environmentally friendly" food item debuted in the city of Sodertalje, located southwest of the capital Stockholm, during its Science Week held Feb. 1 to Feb. 3. Several companies under the European Union's MatLust project joined the three-day event at the Sodertalje Science Park. MatLust ran both a testbed and an innovation program for startups that dabble in so-called "sustainable foods" in the city, according to the RAIR Foundation USA.

Startup company Tebrito ...

EAT BUGS AND BE HAPPY: EU authorities approve crickets, mealworms in food

January 25, 2023 -

According to a report by the Olive Oil Times, the European Commission (EC) approved on Jan. 6 the use of house crickets (Acheta domesticus) in powdered form as an ingredient for several food items. The go signal from the EC was in response to a 2019 application filed by the Vietnam-based insect protein company Cricket One. Food producers can now include partially de-fatted and powdered A. domesticus following the move.

The EC permitted the addition of cricket ...

Crickets are now being farmed in Kenya as a food source for humans

January 10, 2018 -

The house cricket, or Acheta domesticus, is now being incorporated in the scaled-up production of farming systems in Kenya and other locations in the world as a possible source of animal proteins. The researchers from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) who took part in the study wanted to determine the nutritional value of farmed crickets based on their age to verify the "optimal harvesting time" for the insects. If successful, the crickets ...

Spanish startup to put cricket tortillas, chips on the menu

August 20, 2021 -

Origen Farms, an insect startup on the outskirts of a town in Castile-La Mancha in Spain, was founded in 2019. It is the brainchild of three childhood friends: Andres Garcia de Lis, Francisco Tebar and Jose Torres.

Garcia de Lis said they were looking to start a business that was profitable and sustainable. He said they settled for crickets even after looking at other options, including spirulina and other kinds of insects, because the market for crickets is still young....

Polish gov’t minister proposes “anti-bug” law requiring labels for foods that contain INSECTS

April 12, 2023 -

Polish Deputy Agriculture Minister Janusz Kowalski of the United Poland (SP) party unveiled the proposal on April 6. He said that he and other SP members "have initiated the preparation of legal regulations … that will give Polish consumers knowledge about food products containing so-called bug additives."

"This is an anti-bug law," Kowalski continued. He expounded that if the bill passes, products that contain insects in whatever form as food additives would have to include ...

Schools in Dutch province serving INSECTS to students

October 24, 2022 -

A report by the Dutch news site rtvoost expounded on the project, initially launched at the city of Zwolle in the northeastern province of Overijssel. School canteens in the city announced that mealworms and other critters will be on the menu. It remains unknown if parents agreed to, much less made aware of, these questionable nutritional experiments.

The Octopus primary school in Zwolle was among the schools who served insects on the menu. Its canteen served mealworms, ...

Italian bakery announces plan to sell breads made with cricket powder

February 12, 2023 -

The Tellia resturant chain in the northern Italian city of Turin made this announcement on Feb. 6. Enrico Murdocco, a chef who runs the restaurant chain, told Italian media outlets that he experimented with a mix of Sicilian grain flour and cricket powder during baking tests to "soften the flavor" of the extra ingredient.

One outlet, the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera, quoted Murdocco as saying that he was especially happy with "the crust and the range of flavors....

Natural flock management: Essential oils improve egg quality

March 11, 2018 -

Previous research on egg-laying hens found that feed solutions supplemented with thyme, sage, and rosemary essential oils and essential oil mixtures improved performance, immune response, and eggshell quality of hens.

In this study, published in Animal Nutrition, the researchers analyzed a total of 960 Lohmann Brown laying hens (Gallus gallus domesticus) aged 53 weeks under four different treatment diets supplemented with Enviva EO at concentrations of 0, 50, 100 and 150 mg/kg ...

Wild pig-boar hybrids take over closed-off Fukushima danger zone

July 07, 2021 -

According to scientists, Japanese wild boars (Sus scrofa leucomystax) in the area bred with domestic pigs (S. scrofa domesticus) that escaped from abandoned farms in the quarantine zone. They discovered after further analysis that the domestic pig genes had gradually been "diluted" over time.

Fukushima University researcher Donovan Anderson told the BBC: "While the radiation [in Fukushima] hasn't caused a genetic effect, the invasive domestic pig species has." He pointed ...