Bug Food 513
Bars and crickets: the perfect binomial
Interview with Gabi Lewis, cofounder of EXO How and when did you have the idea to run an edible insects business? Greg, my co-founder, and I had met while we were studying at Brown University. He had just come back from a conference hosted by MIT and the Dalai Lama on climate change and resource scarcity, […]
Draft guidance on applications for novel foods: EFSA’s public consultation
EFSA has launched a public consultation on two draft guidance documents in the area of novel foods. EFSA developed the documents following the adoption in November 2015 of the EU Regulation on novel foods. The first document specifies the requirements applicants need to meet when submitting applications for the authorisation of novel foods. The second […]
EAT: Stockholm Food Forum 2016
EAT Stockholm Food Forum is taking place in Sweden on June 13th – 14th 2016, at the Clarion Hotel Sign. The third Forum brings together some of the world’s brightest people in the fields of science, politics, civil society to shift food systems towards greater sustainability, security, and equity within the boundaries of our planet. […]
Entomophagy and italian consumers: an exploratory analysis
Methods: the experiment involved a mixed group of Italian individuals (n=46) –in terms of age and gender– who tasted three species of edible insects (cricket, honeycomb moth and grasshopper) and afterwards were handed a questionnaire to explore their opinions on the subject of entomophagy. Results: the analysis shows that curiosity and environmental benefits are the […]
Edible insects at the European Symposium on Food Safety
The International Association for Food Protection announces the European Symposium on Food Safety, Athens (Greece) 11-13 May 2016. A section of the program will be dedicated to edible insects with the title: “Edible Insects, New Future Food: Threats and Opportunity”
Farming edible insects in a Cube
Interview with Janne Koskenniemi, EntoCube How did you get involved in the edible insects business? Our core team consists of people with different backgrounds and different stories of how they became involved with insect business. We have enthusiastic travelers and excellent chefs like Perttu and Otto, people with a lot of experience on studying insect […]