Dietary Periplaneta americana extract improved the growth performance, immune, and antioxidative status, and crowding st...
...Published in Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
Dietary Periplaneta americana extract improved the growth performance, immune, and antioxidative status, and crowding st...
...Published in Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
African traditional use of edible insects and challenges towards the future trends of food and feed
Published in Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
In the current times of climate change, the intense use of insects as a protein source is gaining popularity worldwide, and will likely contribute to increased nutrient intake in food and feed due to its nutritional, ecological, nutraceutical, and medicinal potential. Ancient traditional consumption of wild-harvested insects in Africa is a valuable...
Closing the gap – producing black soldier fly larvae on aquaculture side streams
Published in Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
The aim of the study was to investigate if black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae can be grown on sludge from a salmonid fresh-water recirculating aquaculture system facility in a small pilot-scale trial. The growth and transfer of both nutrients and unwanted components from the sludge to the insect larvae was analysed. A commercial chicken f...
Asymptotic estimated digestibility, a new indicator of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) conversion efficiency in re...
Published in Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
Can crickets recognise bacterially contaminated feed? Gryllus assimilis odour perception of Escherichia coli
Published in Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
Edible crickets Acheta domesticus and Gryllus assimilis are worldwide mass-reared insects. They are recognised as a sustainable source of protein in the food and feed industries and, in relation to this, must comply with food safety requirements. In this study, we assessed the self-protective ability of crickets to recognise potentially hazardous b...
Factors affecting willingness and future intention to eat insects in students of an edible insect course
Published in Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
Interest in insects as food has increased globally over the last decade. Factors affecting willingness to eat insects in countries without traditions of edible insects have been studied predominantly in Europe, and with a predominant focus on consumer attributes such as levels of food neophobia or disgust. This study examined attitudes in Taiwan, w...
Are insects a good source of protein for humans?
Published in Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
When insects are introduced as a novel protein source in human diets, we need to understand the protein quality to compare their nutritional value with other foods. Protein quality assessment methods are based on evaluation of the ability of the protein to meet the amino acid (AA) requirements of the human body. Most available data comes from anima...
Effect of astaxanthin isomer supplementation on their accumulation in edible orthopterans: migratory locusts and two-spo...
Published in Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
The effects of an all-E-isomer-rich astaxanthin diet (E-AST-D) and Z-isomer-rich astaxanthin diet (Z-AST-D) supplementation on astaxanthin accumulation and isomer composition in the edible orthopterans, migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) and two-spotted cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus), were investigated. Z-Isomer-rich astaxanthin was prepared from...
Chitin contents in different black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) life stages
Published in Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
Black soldier fly (BSF, Hermetia illucens) is a promising insect species for valorising organic side streams into biomass high in protein and lipid. However, BSF also contains chitin known to possess anti-nutritional properties hampering its applications in food and feed. Quantification of chitin is often disregarded and studies that have quantifie...
