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 …

Insects are part of the human diet in many parts of the world. Their nutritional value is widely
recognized. Currently, most edible insects are harvested from the wild, although semi …

Highlights•Sustainability is a driving factor for the acceptance of insects as food, however it
is not the main reason for consumption.•The acceptance of insects as food is complex and …

There is an increasing demand for alternative and sustainable protein sources, such as
vegetables, insects and microorganisms, that can meet the nutritional and sensory …

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 …

Studies on consumers' perceptions towards entomophagy have recently gained popularity.
However, the use of the general term “insect” represents a limitation of previous research …

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 …

Entomophagy–intentional consumption of insects–is practiced in several regions of the
world, particularly in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In the Western world, edible insects …

A large number of consumer studies on edible insects in Western countries have been
published in 2019. A total of 33 studies are brought together in this article that provides an …