Posted on 11/24/2017 7:45:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
It's said to be richer in protein than regular loaves
A Finnish bakery has launched what it claims to be the world’s first insect-based bread, made from crushed crickets.
Helsinki-based bakery Fazer made the bread using flour ground from dried crickets. Each loaf contains about 70 of the insects, combined with wheat flour and other seeds.
At £3.55 (€3.99) a loaf, it is slightly more expensive than a regular wheat loaf which usually sells for about £2 (€2.24).
Due to a limited supply of crickets, the insect-bread will initially only be sold in 11 Fazer bakery stores in Helsinki, but the company plans to offer it in all 47 of its stores by next year.
It comes as Finland lifts a ban on the sale of insects raised and marketed for food use.
Five other European countries - the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Denmark - already allow this.
In 2013, the United Nations estimated that at least 2 billion people eat insects worldwide.
The development of the insect-bread comes as edible bugs gain popularity in niche markets in western countries. They are a seen as a more ethical protein source for environmentally-conscious customers because farming insects uses less land, water and feed than other animals.
The bread’s bakers say their insect bread is more rich in protein than regular wheat loads.
I’m old fashioned. I throw away any food that gets insects in it
Tons of protein in insect flour and your taste buds none the wiser.
This could be a huge step towards treating world malnutrition if people could get past the “ick” factor.
Please send the recipe to Venezuela
I didn’t climb to the top of the food chain to eat bugs.
I can’t.... ; )
Will they publish an article when said cricket bread proves to be a commercial flop?
I eat the eggs and, later on, the chickens.
Ick factor avoided and a lack of crop eating disease spreading bugs around my house.
If it tastes good and is cheaper than my whole wheat bread I bake at home, I will buy it.
The ingredients for my whole wheat bread cost me about 50 cents. I can also buy good whole wheat in the store for $1.50. I do not think the “bug bread” will be a success.
Insects for food are for the masses. They are pushing this anti-meat campaign and conditioning folks that eating bugs is better for the environment.
Are the elites going to join in and eat bugs too?
No, they're not. They're going to continue to eat caviar, wine, steaks, and the finest Kobe beef.
Lords of Poverty(Graham Hancock) is a startling read. As an example, a charity has a shipment of water/food/medicine dropped at location. The neighborly warlord arrives. After allowing the charity(on their request) to finish taking guilt-you-to-donate photos of feeding a starving child, the warlord takes it all for his army.
“Pontypool”
A zombie movie with a twist.
Next think you know, they’ll be trying to get me to drink beer that’s had little critters swimming around pissing in it. I ain’t falling for it.
You mean yeast?
I don’t care what kind of fancy name you call them, it still sounds disgusting.
I have hosed grasshoppers off my car’s grill with radiator water, shaking up a bottle of Coca Cola (the squatty green ones that cost a nickle), spraying them first to loosen them up if they were a baked-on mess.
I can truthfully say that never once did anyone say, “Let’s eat those bugs,” though occasionally someone would comment, “It took a lot of guts to do that!” if a really juicy hopper hit the windshield, and we laughed like it was the first time we heard it because we all remembered the first time we said it.
They’re bait, not food.
The damned legs tickle your throat on the way down.
They’ve got to breed a legless cricket just for baking.
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