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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 had a great uncle who tried breeding four-legged chickens, thinking he could make a fortune selling them to KFC.
But they were so fast no one could catch them.
So he outsmarted himself and his dream died.
im on a low carb, high fat diet and while its working wonders for me, i do miss bread. ill try it!
The elites already eat bugs if my food magazines and Chopped are anything to go by. It’s hip, it’s cool and it’s nutritious! Well, that’s what they say. I do believe it is nutritious.
A lot of diet things ( for losing weight) have chitin in them and it just goes on through. I'm not sure it would cause too much harm if it were ground small enough. But if you eat whole grasshoppers and the legs get tangled up in your intestines, well, that's a different story.
Bottom line: Do not eat bugs, insects, larvae, or for that matter slugs, mollusks, and I don't eat insects of the sea either.... crab, lobster etc.
The military survival training says you can eat soft insects that are green. They are most like plants and have little chitin.
Entomology 1968 UCD
Eat Jimminy Cricket...NO WAY!!!
Long ago and far away while under the influence of a lot of saki I ate a cricket soaked in plum sauce. Not my finest appetizer. :-)
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I enjoyed an excellent seafood risotto last night at Lago in Las Vegas. I can’t imagine introducing bugs into such a fine meal.
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