Posted on 02/28/2020 11:36:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
GHENT, Belgium - Belgian waffles may be about to become more environmentally friendly.
Scientists at Ghent University in Belgium are experimenting with larva fat to replace butter in waffles, cakes and cookies, saying using grease from insects is more sustainable than dairy produce.
Clad in white aprons, the researchers soak Black soldier fly larvae in a bowl of water, put it in a blender to create a smooth greyish dollop and then use a kitchen centrifuge to separate out insect butter.
“There are several positive things about using insect ingredients,” said Daylan Tzompa Sosa, who oversees the research.
“They are more sustainable because (insects) use less land (than cattle), they are more efficient at converting feed ... and they also use less water to produce butter,” Tzompa Sosa said as she held out a freshly baked insect butter cake.
According to the researchers, consumers notice no difference when a quarter of the milk butter in a cake is replaced with larva fat. However, they report an unusual taste when it gets to fifty-fifty and say they would not want to buy the cake.
Insect food has high levels of protein, vitamins, fiber and minerals and scientists elsewhere in Europe are looking at it as a more environmentally friendly and cheap alternative to animal products.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
No.
I’m not eating bugs.
Probably great in bat soup!
No. Just. No.
The maggot buttered bagels are delish.
https://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/heres-whats-in-imitation-vanilla
[Imitation vanilla, however, is made from synthetic vanillin, which is the compound that naturally occurs in vanilla beans and gives it that distinctive flavor. This synthetic vanillin can come from the previously mentioned wood pulp waste (though that’s recently fallen out of favor) or coal tar, cow poop, secretions from a beaver’s castor glands (located conveniently near its anus), clove oil, pine bark, or fermented bran. ]
“According to the researchers, consumers notice no difference when a quarter of the milk butter in a cake is replaced with larva fat. However, they report an unusual taste when it gets to fifty-fifty and say they would not want to buy the cake.”
Wanna bet none of these scientists eats this s**t at their homes! I’m thinking of the picture on the package of Thomas English Muffins with a big square piece of butter melting on a slice of a toasted muffin. Replace that image of butter with the mangled remains of a fly, cockroach, and insect turned into gruel and slathered on top of that English muffin. Yuck!
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This is slave food.
The slave masters won’t be eating it.
Bees make honey, cows make milk. Eff their damn ‘insect butter’.
This really bugs me.
To kill the dairy industry they will massively increase the collection of certain insects until those insects are added to the “endangered species” list - making their new “butter” NOT a “sustainable” product. Will they stop that nonsense before any one of them says “whoops”?
Good for them.
I hope they enjoy it because I ain’t touching it.
Eeewwww
Why didn’t they use butterflies?
NOOOO! Noooo, don't use the butterflies!
Oh, those poor, starving Europeans again. We fed them through World War 1 and World War 2.
LOL! Sorry about that, Jacki!
Stop trying to make it happen Globalists. It's not going to happen.
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