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 …

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 …

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 …

During the last five years the scientific knowledge on insects as food and feed has been
growing exponentially. At the same time, the industrial sector is increasingly engaged in …

Recently, attention has been drawn to the fact that increasing the consumption of edible
insects may positively impact the state of the natural environment and reduce the problem of …

Livestock farming and its products provide a diverse range of benefits for our day-to-day life.
However, the ever-increasing demand for farmed animals has raised concerns about waste …

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 …

Efforts to reduce the environmental burden of agri-food systems have fostered technological
advances to enable a transition towards more sustainable production and diets. Such a …

The consumption of edible insects (EI) is traditional in many parts of the world, but not in
others. In fact, despite globalization and the multiple advantages pointed out about the …