Consumers' dietary patterns have a significant impact on planetary and personal health. To
address health and environmental challenges one of the many possible solutions is to …

Consuming insects is a possible alternative to meat consumption that has few detrimental
impacts on the environment and human health. Whether novel foods made from insects will …

The idea of insects as human food in the Western world has only been around for a few
decades. Insect products can be a substitute for conventional meat because: 1) their …

Background Meat, an important source of protein and other nutrients in human diets, is one
of the major drivers of global environmental change in terms of greenhouse gas emissions …

Food futurists accept that sustainability-minded humanity will increasingly incorporate
insects as alternative protein. The most studied and easily reared species are not …

Background Edible insects are considered a new alternative sustainable source of proteins
that exhibits higher feed-conversion efficiency and has a less negative environmental …

Over the last decade, the urgency to find alternative and sustainable protein sources has
prompted an exponential increase in the interest in insects as a human food source. Edible …

During the past few years, entomophagy has been increasing in significance. As insects are
generally high in protein, they are principally considered as meat substitutes. Nevertheless …

The traditional consumption of edible insects is common in one third of the world's
population, mostly in Latin America, Africa and Asia. There are over one thousand identified …

Based on their high nutritional value and low production costs, insects are an excellent and
sustainable source of animal protein. In contrast to countries such as China, in Western …