Several supermarkets in Belgium are reported to start selling insect-based snacks in October 2014. These snacks will include insect burgers, nuggets and schnitzels. The protein will be harvested from larvae from the black fungus beetle, a very sustainable source. Belgian food authorities were happy to add these insects to the official list of allowed and […]
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BBC doing a special on eating bugs
Check it out: the classic BBC foody programme Food and Drink has just shown a special about insects being the future of edible protein. Cheap, sustainable and eco-friendly, insects really are not to be sniffed at. Chef Stefan Gates claims — as we’ve said earlier — that most of us are eating insects already. So […]
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Insect bread for sale in Holland
There’s at least one Dutch bakery, Bakker Hazenberg in Vlaardingen (NL), that bakes and sells insect-enriched bread. On purpose, mind you. At least they USED to make them. Contact them to ask if they’re still at it, if you feel like nibbling on a bug bun… Alas, the videos on the bakery’s website have been […]
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Bug wallpapers
Some of you might well be true bug addicts. This is why we have constructed a couple of images (based on images available on the web) that you could use as a computer desktop wallpaper, or even as a website background pic. These are small, but tile-able, images, so make sure that you set your […]
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Everybody eats bugs…
…even vegetarians do. Eating insects — processed or not — is quite common in the Western world. A simple example is our common food colouring coded “E120”. Basically, that’s a bright red insect ground up and used as dye. By the way, it’s a vegetarian insect, so startled veggies need not worry too much here […]
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Which insects are edible? (part 1)
Of course, you could watch the Bush Tucker Man or Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel and make a note every time they gobble up an insect – be it a grub or a spider or a handful of ants. But there are in fact lists of edible insects published online. Yeay! Here’s one for […]
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Sligro is planning to sell bug snacks
According to a spokesperson, Sligro is planning to start selling insect-based snacks shortly. Sligro is a Dutch wholesale snacks company – and as such a major player in the Western European market. However, Albert Heijn, another major player (i.e. in the consumer market) is hesitant. But not to worry: pretty soon, supermarket shelves all around […]
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Marcel Dicke talks about eating insects
From a country where pigs outnumber humans, here’s Professor Marcel Dicke convincing people they should switch from pork to polypod and save the earth in the process. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j47FqKAK6s Please note that the funny accent is not the result of his munching on a mouthful of bugs, but rather of his being a Dutchman.
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Eating bugs?
BugNuggets.Com aims to explain why people should be eating more insects. Bugs, if you will… “Bugs?” you say… Yes. Insects are high in nutrients, can be raised and harvested in an energy-efficient and sustainable way, and can be yummy too. Apart from the famous Bugnuggets, other insect-based snacks will be mentioned and reviewed here. Also, […]
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