Edible Insects
Microwaves to dry edible insects
A short talk with Lyn Miao, Marketing manager at Max Industrial Microwave Tell us about the company and the products you market We mainly manufacture industrial microwave machines, including batch ovens and tunnel conveyors. Our microwave machines are mainly used for drying, heating, sterilizing, bonding and roasting applications. What kind of products do you specifically […]
Edible insects in Burkina Faso
Interview with Kahitouo Hien, FasoPro founder. Tell us how you got interested in edible insects Shea caterpillars are traditional food for some ethnic group in Burkina Faso especially in the western part of the country where I come from. As a little boy, I used to eat this insect with my dad. But at that […]
Crickerita: buying and rearing crickets
This week I decided to start the Crickerita project. Crickerita is the idea that my work group had during the lectures of the course “insects as food and feed”. First thing to do: buy the crickets! In Wageningen there is one large pet-shop that also sells various insects as feed for reptiles and birds, so […]
Could that of edible insects be a 4.0 Industry?
We talk more and more about Industry 4.0, internet of things and machine learning. Basically it is about how to improve the production of a good through the interconnectivity of the operators involved, men and machines or even just machines and machines. This needs investments, of course, and entrepreneurs who understand the potential benefits. For […]
Insects pasta at the University of Palermo
Monday , May 8 . 9:30AM – 14:00PM Spagrillo will be participating to the scientific conference “Insetti a tavola? I Novel food e le frontiere dell’alimentazione umana“, held in the Agriculture Department, Palermo University. The topic will be discussed from different affirmed lecturers of Palermo, Bologna, Napoli and Piacenza University, as well as Paul […]
The Novel Foods and the human-nutrition frontiers
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