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SeedsAndChips Milan: food meets technology
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Interview: Prof. Enrico Alleva -Italian Institute of Health
We interviewed Professor Enrico Alleva, ethologist Director of the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at the Italian Institute of Health and President of the Italian Federation of Natural and Environmental Sciences. Insects as food for humans has been recently discussed in our country, it has become a matter of discussion and serious thoughts […]
Edible insects: the Detroit Conference 2016
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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 […]
Spacefood, edible insects, italian-style
When you say food you say Italy. It’s inevitable. When talking about spacefood, you’re talking about Italy, again. And it’s italian Argotec, the company chosen by European Space Agency to develop -in the SpaceFood Lab- the food supply program for European astronauts in the ISS (International Space Station). This kind of special food (called “bonus-food”) […]
The plastic-eating worms
Consider the plastic foam cup. Every year, Americans throw away 2.5 billion of them. And yet, that waste is just a fraction of the 33 million tons of plastic Americans discard every year. Less than 10 percent of that total gets recycled, and the remainder presents challenges ranging from water contamination to animal poisoning. Enter […]
