World Edible Insect Day issue
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Products for World Edible Insect Day
Bella Pupa, Bugsolutely
Bear Grylls bars, Tobar
Insect derived food for dogs, Bug Bakes and Eat Small
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Bella Pupa: Silkworm powder snack launches on the Chinese market
Every year, China produces 500,000 tons of silkworms, fed from the leaves of mulberry trees. This constitutes 75% of the world's production. These are fed usually to animals after the silk is reeled from the cocoon. Bugsolutely engaged Mill Food Intelligence to develop a snack food containing 20% silkworm powder. This is now available in China as Bella Pupa in original and 'angry Sichuan' flavours. Bella Pupa won the Food and Beverage Innovation Forum 2017 Innovation Award.
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Bear Grylls has teamed up with the wholesaler, Tobar, to produce protein and energy bars using flour derived from buffalo worm larvae (Alphitobius diaperinus). There are two high-protein insect powder bar flavours: apricot, cranberry and chia flavour and dark chocolate and fig. The energy insect powder bars are orange and dark chocolate, and apple, caramel and cinnamon. Bars will be available for sale later in 2018. Tobar has previously developed products in the I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here Bush Grub range, including Salt & Vinegar Crickets and Mealworm Lollipops.
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Bugfoundation secures investment from PHW Gruppe
Bugfoundation, the Osnabrück based insect burger producer in northern Germany agreed in July a partnership with PHW Gruppe, the country's largest supplier of feed to poultry producers. This may anticipate EU approval to use insects in fish production being extended to poultry producers.
Other examples of insects in animal feed are:
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Meetings
29-30 October 2018
ICE 2018 : 20th International Conference on Entomology
Holiday Inn Paris Gare Montparnasse
79 - 81 avenue du Maine - 75014 Paris, France
Conference Code: 18FR10ICE
ICE 2018: 20th International Conference on Entomology aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Entomology. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Entomology.
6 November 2018
Contribution of the European insect sector to competitive and sustainable value chains. International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed (IPIFF) Annual event 2018.
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Brussels
11-14 November 2018
2018 ESA, ESC, and ESBC Joint Annual Meeting.
Crossing borders, entomology in a changing world.
Vancouver, Canada
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Events
20 October 2018, 10:30 and 12:00
Incredible Edible Insect Event
San Antonio Botanical Garden
Four course insect tasting with guest speakers Molly Keck, AgriLife Extension, and Robert Nathan Allen, Little Herds
Contact: mekeck@ag.tamu.edu
23 October 2018, 3rd World Edible Insect Day
Woven Network has a collection of recipes, details of chefs who cook with insects and insect products, links with suppliers who will deliver ingredients that are available to members, and can be released to applicants on application. The Eat Grub recipe book has a number of brownies, cookies etc that are available for you to cook.
Have you arranged something? Would you like to share it? We hope that this year's Global Edible insects day has been a good opportunity for lots of events around the country. Woven can help to connect people. If you would like to organise something related to insects in food and feed please let us know - what do you need? What are you planning? Who is your audience? If you have resources - products, videos, materials, brochures ... let us know.
27, 28 October 2018
Cooking with critters Images
Stoneview Nature Center, Culver City, CA
Bugible Aly Moore
28-28 October 2018
EA Global: London 2018
Effective Altruism Global
University College London Institute of Education
Includes a debate with Good Food Institute on the role of insects in sustainable food systems. Also culturing insect cells, and culturing other cells on a silk based scaffold in cellular agricultural research at Tufts University.
10 – 14 November 2018
Agritech mission to Yunnan Province, China
Unconventional Connections in partnership with Connect_China has a mission to the agricultural province of Yunnan in South-West china to foster UK-China agri and food tech collaboration and export. Further details: nick.rousseau@unconventionalconnections.co.uk
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Publications
Berger S, Bärtsch C, Schmidt C, Christandl F, Wyss AM. When Utilitarian Claims Backfire: Advertising Content and the Uptake of Insects as Food. Frontiers in Nutrition 2018; 5: 88
DOI=10.3389/fnut.2018.00088 ISSN=2296-861X
Insects have yet to reach mainstream Western cuisine. Promotion strategies highlight utilitarian benefits associated with insect consumption (e.g. benefits to the environment or one’s health). The efficacy of such claims were studied in 180 participants in Germany. Beneficial, but temporally distant motives (e.g., health) decrease consumption compared with immediate, hedonic advertisements (e.g., good tasting). Expectations raised by a particular claim mediate the relationship between claims and consumption. Integrating psychological factors may be used to promote the consumption of insects.
Ribeiro JC, 1, Cunha LM, Sousa-Pinto B, Fonseca J. Allergic risks of consuming edible insects: A systematic review. Molecular Nutrition Food Research 2018; 62(1): 1700030
DOI 10.1002/mnfr.201700030
Insects may be a novel food source. However, there needs to be an assessment of the risks associated with their consumption, including allergic risks. Therefore, we performed a systematic review aiming to analyse current data available regarding the allergic risks of consuming insects. We reviewed all reported cases of food allergy to insects, and studied the possibility of cross‐reactivity and co‐sensitisation between edible insects, crustaceans and house dust mites. We analysed a total of 25 articles – eight assessing the cross‐reactivity/co‐sensitisation between edible insects, crustaceans and house dust mites; three characterising allergens in edible insects and 14 case reports, describing case series or prevalence studies of food allergy caused by insects. Cross‐reactivity/co‐sensitisation between edible insects and crustaceans seems to be clinically relevant, while it is still unknown if co‐sensitisation between house dust mites and edible insects can lead to a food allergy. Additionally, more information is also needed about the molecular mechanisms underlying food allergy to insects, although current data suggest that an important role is played by arthropod pan‐allergens such as tropomyosin or arginine kinase.
Manditsera AF, Pieternel AL, Fogliano V, Lakemond CMM.
The contribution of wild harvested edible insects (Eulepida mashona and Henicus whellani) to nutrition security in Zimbabwe. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 2019; 75: 17-23
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfca.2018.09.013
Wild harvested edible insects have potential to contribute to nutrition security, yet their nutritional composition is often unknown. This study investigated the nutritional composition of wild harvested Eulepida mashona (EM) and Henicus whellani (HW) and variation in nutritional composition with respect to geographical place of harvest in Zimbabwe. Proximate and mineral composition, fatty acid, and amino acid profiles were analysed on samples of EM and HW collected at multiple locations from three and two districts in Zimbabwe, respectively. The protein content ranged between 52–56% (EM) and 59–70% (HW). High tryptophan concentration (8.68 mg/g protein) in EM offers possibilities of using these insects in complementing this limiting amino acid in maize, which is the staple food in Zimbabwe. The fat content of both species was low (<10%), but differed significantly between sampling districts. The PUFA/SFA and omega 6/3 ratios of both species are recommendable for a healthy diet. The iron (24.2–52.9 mg/100 g) and zinc content (10.0–20.9 mg/100 g) are high for both species, making them a useful mineral-containing ingredient for food enrichment. Consumption of 50 g of both insect species will contribute on average to 30%, 50%, and 30% of the recommended daily protein, iron, and zinc respectively.
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