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We were in the last minutes of the lecture of the course “ Insects as food and feed”. The course, managed by the Prof. Joop van Loon (Lab. of Entomology), together with many professors and researchers from different departments (Entomology, Aquaculture, Animal Production Systems, Food Technology, Food Safety, Animal Nutrition) addresses insects as human food […]
Cockroaches to innovate the food industry in Brazil
Interview with students Andressa Jantzen and Lauren Menegon (photo) and Prof. Myriam Salas Mellado, Food Science and Technology Laboratory of Federal University of Rio Grande (Brazil). You’ve recently concluded a study on producing flour from edible insects. How did you get interested in this topic? While trying to innovate the food industry in Brazil our […]
Goterra: insects feed made in Australia
Interview with Olympia Yarger, Goterra founder Tell us a little about you and your project Goterra Goterra is an insect farm-feed company based in Canberra Australia. We are developing commercial Black Soldier Fly farming practices. What are the products you are working on? Currently we’re focusing on artificial lighting and have developed a prototype lighting […]
Food allergies are growing in the West
Interview with Antonio De Gennaro, founder of FoodAllergeni Tell us about your background and the activities of FoodAllergeni I am an entrepreneur, graduated in Communication at the University La Sapienza of Rome. I worked for several years with a known communications company as a trainer for retail. In the last three years I worked as […]
A sensory analysis for edible insects
An edible insects sensory analysis (in italian) for Insetticommestibili.it made by Sensorytrip:
Alberto Zamprogna joined our team at L’Entomofago
I make my bachelor in “Animal Productions and Wildlife Management” at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Torino (IT). During my studies the passion for entomology increases until I decide to spend my free credits on the course “ Fundamental and Applied Entomology” at the faculty of Agronomic Science. During my internship I worked in […]
The FAO book on edible insects translated in italian
The FAO book “Edible insects – Future prospects for food and feed security” is finally available also in italian. The volume is the great result of the efforts by Prof. Laura Gasco and a group of other scientists, with the support of Chirotti Editore. The book is now for sale (€ 36).
