Insects eating yummy or not? Watch our video
October 27, 2015
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Insects eating when you are at the food market? Yes and you can find all kind of different bites. Here in Asia is normal to sell fried insects. Yes, you can buy it in Europe but it is still not so popular delicacy. But around 2 billion people regularly eat insects as part of their diet, and over 1,900 species are edible. The most commonly eaten bugs are beetles, caterpillars, bees, wasps and ants.

They might not look like much, but insects actually have a high fat, protein, vitamin, fiber and mineral content that is often comparable to fish or livestock. House crickets, for example, contain on average 205 g/kg protein; beef contains 256 g/kg. Termites are also surprisingly protein rich—one species found in Venezuela is 64% protein (and they taste like mint—trust me, I’ve eaten them). Some insects are even as much as 80% protein by weight.

Insects are also rich in essential amino acids and omega-3 fatty acids; mealworms contain as much unsaturated omega-3 and six fatty acids as fish and even more than beef and pork. Some are also surprisingly high in iron; locusts contain up to 20 mg/100g iron and mopane caterpillars contain a mighty 31 mg/100g, whereas beef only contains around 6 mg/100g.

We resisted really hard and didn’t want to eat them but they told us it’s tasty like a french fries and highly nutritious. It should be yummy or not? And when we are here we should try it. Hmm.. so we bought a three course menu (crickets, grasshopper, larvae) and made a video and now you can see how brave we are:) We hope that future is not in eating those small insects or at least please serve them with ketchup 😀 You can read more about it here

Watch our video