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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is starting a campaign to get Europeans to include insects in their diet, because hey are nutritious and good for the environment. For example, grasshoppers provide 20.6% protein, as much as beef, while their farming is much cheaper.
Entomophagy is the term used to describe the consumption of insects as a food source. Although eating insects intentionally is not yet common practice in the United States and Europe, it is popular among the peoples of many other regions of the world including Africa, Asia, Australia, Mexico and South America. These areas have developed specific recipes for certain regional insects as part of their daily diet. In general, insects provide a rich source of protein and area relatively inexpensive to purchase as compared to meat products. Though not all insects can be eaten, many can, either raw or cooked, while others are used as ingredients to produce other food items.
In Africa, popular insects to eat include termites, grasshoppers, caterpillars, beetles, ants, and locusts.
All over Asia, the giant waterbug, which is gathered at night near water sources, is roasted whole and eaten as a delicacy. Ants, beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, locusts, and larvae from the dragonfly are fried or boiled prior to eating.
Australia is home to many large colonies of termites, some of which are as long as three inches in length. Australians favor these insects and prefer them fried.
In Mexico and South America, grasshoppers are a popular food source, especially fried. Fried grasshoppers are also canned commercially and sold in supermarkets and local grocery stores. The agave worm is also a popular insect to eat, whether swallowed whole in a preserved state in a bottle of tequila or eaten cooked inside of a tortilla.
So, do you consume, and enjoy, insects in your country?
But if you live in Europe or USA, how would you fancy a dish of large, juicy cockroaches on your Christmas table? And would you prefer them fried, boiled or preserved in a jar?
http://www.essortment.com/all/entomophagyeati_rnkm.htm
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/...s-and-for-the-environment-scientists-claim.do
Entomophagy is the term used to describe the consumption of insects as a food source. Although eating insects intentionally is not yet common practice in the United States and Europe, it is popular among the peoples of many other regions of the world including Africa, Asia, Australia, Mexico and South America. These areas have developed specific recipes for certain regional insects as part of their daily diet. In general, insects provide a rich source of protein and area relatively inexpensive to purchase as compared to meat products. Though not all insects can be eaten, many can, either raw or cooked, while others are used as ingredients to produce other food items.
In Africa, popular insects to eat include termites, grasshoppers, caterpillars, beetles, ants, and locusts.
All over Asia, the giant waterbug, which is gathered at night near water sources, is roasted whole and eaten as a delicacy. Ants, beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, locusts, and larvae from the dragonfly are fried or boiled prior to eating.
Australia is home to many large colonies of termites, some of which are as long as three inches in length. Australians favor these insects and prefer them fried.
In Mexico and South America, grasshoppers are a popular food source, especially fried. Fried grasshoppers are also canned commercially and sold in supermarkets and local grocery stores. The agave worm is also a popular insect to eat, whether swallowed whole in a preserved state in a bottle of tequila or eaten cooked inside of a tortilla.
So, do you consume, and enjoy, insects in your country?
But if you live in Europe or USA, how would you fancy a dish of large, juicy cockroaches on your Christmas table? And would you prefer them fried, boiled or preserved in a jar?
http://www.essortment.com/all/entomophagyeati_rnkm.htm
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/...s-and-for-the-environment-scientists-claim.do