Posted on 11/30/2016 4:11:12 PM PST by BenLurkin
Insects, blood and faeces may not sound particularly appetising, but they are among the produce we should consider eating if we want our food to be sustainable and healthy, according to a team of chefs and scientists in Denmark.
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“We try to work with every type of produce. Insects, blood, jelly fish, fermented products that sometimes smell and develop mould, and the products look rotten,” explains Roberto Flore, Head of Culinary Research and Development at the lab. “It’s about giving people more confidence with different produce and reconnecting with process of producing food."
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Currently, researchers are working on how to make edible insects – from ants to larvae – more appetising to the uninitiated.
Other experiments have explored how animal blood, and its coagulating properties, could be used as an egg substitute as intolerance to the kitchen staple is one of the most common among child in Europe.
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Its members never shy of controversy, one recently argued in a Munchies article that faeces should be explored as a source of food. After all, young elephants, hippos, koalas, rabbits and pandas eat their mother’s faeces to introduce useful microbes into their digestive systems. And evidence shows that a diverse microbiome in the gut is vital for our health.
While the prospect may sound appalling, similar techniques are already being harnessed. Caterpillar faeces is fermented and used to flavour rice in Japan, says Flore, and kopi lowak, which is digested by the civet, is the most expensive coffee in the world.
“At the moment, gastronomy that is high-quality and sustainable is only available for people who are in the position to buy luxury produce. We want good food available for everyone. That is our main goal.”
(Excerpt) Read more at belfasttelegraph.co.uk ...
Sounds like somebody has been reading the book of Leviticus, searching for ways to be in opposition to it.
and don’t forget balut and haggis.
To the author of this article.....
You first, bubba
I propose that these “scientists” AND their families subsist exclusively on this “diet” for exactly one year and report back to us how it worked out.
Vikings. Oh, for the old days.
If someone wants to eat this kind of thing to “save the planet”, I say, knock yourself out. Just don’t try to force ME to eat it!
Oh, god. I lived in the Philippines for a few years...the smell of those baluts was nauseating.
I remember when I first smelled a really ripe one and involuntarily spit out something like “Oh my God. People eat those things?” and feeling instantaneously nauseous...LOL, kind of like I am feeling now just thinking about it.
I give the Scots lots of creativity points with haggis, but...I can’t think of anything about baluts that makes me laugh, other than the concept of drunk young sailors daring each other to eat one, then watching him immediately barf over a rail...
As Man leaves Earth and goes Offworld, there are those who insist that all sorts, rich and poor, educated and uneducated, hetero-fertile and homosexual, should voyage to the “new world”.
So much for evolving.
God made the world for everyone, not only for the rich.
Excellent points, oldexpat.
And Icelandic hakarl. Yummy!
Enviro-wacko silliness.
How about we just take off and nuke these idiots from space? There’s so much food on this planet it’s insane, the only reason anyone starves is sinful man ...
It’s not for eatin’, it’s for lookin’ through ...
Nordic lab? Don’t Norwegians eat lutefisk? They’ve made their peace with rotten.
No... They want YOU and ME to eat it while they lay claim to the good stuff. Remember the Left’s mantra is “for thee but not for me”.
Both the Old and New Testaments forbid eating blood. So you know the libs will push it on us someday.
endeavor to persevere
You first, Roberto. And hey, you can have MY share of that garbage, too.
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