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Brief overview of edible insects: exploring consumption and promising sustainable uses in Latin America

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
This review explores the significance of consuming edible insects, as well as their use in the food industry, agro-industry for animal husbandry, agricultural fertilizers and bio-pesticides, and pharmaceuticals.
C. Granados-Echegoyen, A. Vasquez-López, Nancy Calderón-Cortés, Heidy Lorena Gallego-Ocampo, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, J. Rodríguez-Vélez, M. A. SARMIENTO-CORDERO, Leidy Julieth Salamanca-Canizales, B. Rodríguez-Vélez, Fabián Arroyo-Balán, P. Andrade-Hoyos   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Food Wastes as a Potential New Source for Edible Insect Mass Production for Food and Feed: A review

Fermentation, 2019
About one-third of the food produced annually worldwide ends up as waste. A minor part of this waste is used for biofuel and compost production, but most is landfilled, causing environmental damage.
Vassileios Varelas
doaj   +1 more source

Nitrogen-to-Protein Conversion Factors for Three Edible Insects: Tenebrio molitor, Alphitobius diaperinus, and Hermetia illucens

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2017
Insects are considered a nutritionally valuable source of alternative proteins, and their efficient protein extraction is a prerequisite for large-scale use.
R. H. Janssen, J. Vincken, L. V. D. van den Broek, V. Fogliano, C. Lakemond   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Stable isotope ratios and current-use pesticide levels in edible insects: Implications on chemical food safety.

Food Research International
In the past years, the European Union (EU) has added edible insects to the list of novel foods, allowing an increasing number of insect-based products into the European market.
Alicia Macan Schönleben, Shanshan Yin, Ethan Strak, A. Johnson, L. Belova, Yu Ait Bamai, A. V. van Nuijs, Giulia Poma, A. Covaci   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Regenerative edible insects for food, feed, and sustainable livelihoods in Nigeria: Consumption, potential and prospects

Future Foods
Edible insects are imperative as food, feed, and other products for industries, but commercial farming and utilization of insects as food, feed and industries is seldom in Nigeria.
Pascal Osa Aigbedion-Atalor, Ken Okwae Fening, Akinyemi O. Adeyemi, Itohan Idemudia, Kenechukwu Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, Maureen Amuche Nwobodo, Oghenetega Sunday, Nnenna Chinyelu Isiogu, Abiola O. Oke   +8 more
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Edible insects as a valuable human food resource: A study of the perceptions of young Indian people [PDF]

The consumption of insects by humans is an age-old practice that is followed by many cultures of the world. Insects are one of the best sources of animal protein and have been the traditional food of many tribes around the world.
Vaishali H. Badiye, Pawan U. Gajbe
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Prospects of rearing selected southern African swarming insects for animal feed: a review on insect farming and the economic value of edible insects

Agriculture & Food Security
The potential of insects as animal feed is currently under doubtful spotlight due to the limited number of reared insect species and fewer farm or biotechnological companies producing insects on a large scale for animal feed worldwide.
S. D. Kolobe, T. G. Manyelo, N. Sebola, E. Malematja, Mabelebele Monnye   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Influence of some Social Factors on the Acceptance of Entomophagy Within University Campus Community in Nigeria

The Bioscientist
There are increased calls for the use of less conventional animal protein sources like edible insects to feed the fast-growing population of the world.
O. B. Oriolowo, O. J. Joseph, O. T. Daramola   +2 more
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Revisiting edible insects as sources of therapeutics and drug delivery systems for cancer therapy

Frontiers in Pharmacology
Cancer has been medicine’s most formidable foe for long, and the rising incidence of the disease globally has made effective cancer therapy a significant challenge. Drug discovery is targeted at identifying efficacious compounds with minimal side effects
Barnali Sinha, Yashmin Choudhury
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Entomophagy and entomo-therapeutic practices in a mountainous territory in southeast Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Background Although China has a long history of using insects as food and medicine and has developed numerous associated knowledge and practices, especially in its rural and mountainous areas, systematic surveys concerning this subject are limited.
Huimin Luo, Chuanyin Dai, Ping Feng
doaj   +1 more source