Ideas 91
Crickerita: the pizza is ready!
As the academic year 2016-2017 comes to the end, it is fair to close it with the conclusive part of my most exciting adventure: Crickerita. The idea of Crickerita was born in January thanks to me and my colleague Stefano Fratoni, during the course “insects as food and feed”. Few months ago, we started to […]
Master Bug: Tiramisù with cricket flour
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The plastic-eating worms
Interview with Dr. Federica Bertocchini, Biomedicine Institute of Cantabria You’ve recently discovered an astonishing “talent” of the Galleria Mellonella larvae. Can you tell us more about? With my collaborators Paolo Bombelli and Chris Howe, at the University of Cambridge, UK, we discovered that the wax worm can bio-degrade polyethylene, the plastic of the garbage bags […]
Novel foods: the need of collective applications
As you may know, the European Commission is updating the Novel Food regulations from January 2018 so that whole insects and products containing whole/ground up insects have to be formally approved before they can be legally sold across the EU. Approvals can be granted for products that have undergone a proprietary process, eg. “grasshoppers that have […]
Raising mealworms for human consumption without electricity
Adam Brantley -a 7th Grade student at Oconee County Middle School, Watkinsville, GA USA- wrote us to share his interesting experiment about raising mealworms for human consumption without the use of electricity. We’re happy to share his work with our readers. “The idea of using insects as a major source of protein for humans has […]
Master Bug: gnocchi con farina di grillo
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Edible insects. South Italy. Fools.
It’s a paradox that the most advanced european countries in edible insects breeding are the ones in the north of the continent. Everyone knows that the mild climates are those that best meet the needs of this kind of activity, also from an economic point of view, just think about costs related to the environmental […]
