Why Cricket Protein Bars Might Be The Future

https://www.mashed.com/221797/the-untold-truth-of-cricket-flour/ ^ | 8/24/2021 | Laine Doss

[Right Wing Vegan]

Smithsonian Magazine reports that protein bars using crickets might be your next favorite snack. Crickets contain more protein than chicken or beef, and raising them are more environmentally sound. Crickets require less food and water to raise and produce one-eightieth the amount of methane as cattle. Eating insects sounds great in theory, but how do they fare as, well, fare?

A company called Exo makes food items from crickets. According to its product website, crickets are "the closest thing to a perfect protein source this planet has ever seen." The company makes protein bars, but don't think that you'll have little legs and wings sticking out of your snack — the bars are made with powder comprised of 100% milled crickets. Smithsonian reports that even though each protein bar has the equivalent of about 40 crickets, the ground cricket flour doesn't taste like much of anything. The bars also contain raw almonds, coconut, honey, and other tasty, natural ingredients.

Though the United States is a little behind in its insect consumption, many other countries enjoy insects as food. The Conversation reports that many countries in Africa practice entomophagy, the word for insect eating. People in Nigeria, South Africa, Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and others consider insects such as caterpillars, termites, and crickets part of their diets.

[OKSooner]

“Crickets contain more protein than chicken or beef.”

Since we follow the science around here, Laine Doss needs to cite her source for that assertion... Further comment withheld.

[j.havenfarm]

At least every couple months we get one of these trite articles about eating bugs. They’ve been publishing them forever and it ain’t happened yet

[cuban leaf]

I honestly don’t have a problem with it under the right circumstances. i.e. free to eat them or not. I wouldn’t mind a bar made from that powder. I would concern myself with what else was in it to make it taste good. I used to be a long distance bike rider. I ate some healthy, but terrible tasting and terrible texture foods in those days. This could be a good dietary supplement.

Currently I eat a can of sardines a day for health reasons. It’s also quite tasty.

[gundog]

Can’t see that one.

[Salamander]

NO

[chief lee runamok]

"People in Nigeria, South Africa, Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and others consider insects such as caterpillars, termites, and crickets part of their diets."

Isn't cultural appropriation against democrat liberal progressive rules??

[FatherofFive]

Sweetbread is a culinary name for the thymus (also called throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) or pancreas (also called stomach, belly or gut sweetbread), typically from calf (ris de veau) and lamb (ris d'agneau).[1][2] The "heart" sweetbreads are more spherical in shape, while the "throat" sweetbreads are more cylindrical in shape.[3] As the thymus is replaced by fibrous tissue in older animals, only pancreatic sweetbreads come from beef and pork.[4] Like other edible non-muscle from animal carcasses, sweetbreads may be categorized as offal, fancy meat, or variety meat.

Various other glands used as food may also sometimes be called "sweetbreads", including the parotid gland ("cheek" or "ear" sweetbread), the sublingual glands ("tongue" sweetbreads or "throat bread") as well as ovary and testicles.

[Salamander]

I love crickets.

They are very personable and friendly.

[HKMk23]

Privation will drive ya to extremities you’d never believe.

Practice shooting, or practice bowing.

[Veto!]

Glad you said that.

[discostu]

I’ve had cricket. Spicy. Protein bars are all gross though.

[Salamander]

LOL

There it is.

/you are pushing JR’s “no F bomb limits”

:D

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Sweetbreads are the thymus gland, generally of veal now days.

They are about the only meat that has a good amount of Vitamin C and Potassium so in HG cultures they are reserved for pregnant females, especially in winter.

[gundog]

[cuban leaf]

African nations peopled by indigenous African people.

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

That’s two....................

[cuban leaf]

I avoid soy as much as possible. Estrogen is for chicks. ;)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You can have my share. :)

[EEGator]

I have never had my Johnny Cash picture removed, and I have used it many times.

It truly applies to so many news stories. :)