“Bugs” is earth’s largest life Kingdom accounting for 75% of all lifeforms on earth by species number excluding bacteria and protists of course. Mature flies are always going to be a no no they feed on things loaded with bacteria and parasites. Fly larvae in controlled environments are a different animal entirely. Black soldier fly larvae are 70% protein and make for excellent animal feeds for any monogastric. Particularly fish which need fishmeal to be farmed. Fishmeal is moving one protein shortage to another source. Using alternative proteins grown on waste streams such as broken rice,corn midlings, ect turns what would be landfill wastes into high quality protein. No one says you have to eat the larvae directly fish will happily turn them into fish fillets at a near one to one ratio of feed to yield. Fish being the top spot in the vertebrates for feed conversion efficiency. Shrimp, crawfish, lobsters all need high protein feeds and they also get close to 1:1. People don’t think twice about e eating lobster which are less than 02% in DNA from a cockroach it’s all mental at that point. The reason to avoid roaches is they carry parasites due to where they live on and off.
That said grinding up larvae into a dry protein powder and putting that into pasta or bread would not alter the taste once processed into dry form protein powder are neutral in flavor. Same for power bars or liquid protein shakes they take the flavor of what you mix them with. Half of humanity is in constant critically protein deficiency. Want them to stop rushing into the first world then make sure they get their cut of the pie or world wars will be fought ones that the West won’t win without nukes. China can field a 100 million man Army same for India in conventional battles in a war of body attrition the West loses not that the West has the stomachs for tens of millions of deaths on the battle field.