Edible insects as feed ingredient, Nutritional and environmental aspects - Food safety and legal requirements
Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Edible insects are becoming a key to solve the world’s food and feed security responding to an \nincreasingly growing world’s population. Despite their nutritional value that is comparable to \nthat of conventional meats and fish, insects have never been recognized as food or feed in \ndeveloped countries. In fact, insect consumption has been a worldwide food habit, dated back \nto pre-history and is still practiced in many countries, even where food security is not a major \nconcern. Moreover, insects are parts of the natural diet in conventional livestock, especially \naquaculture and poultry species To start with FAO/WU’s paper (2013) on edible insects as a \nnew food and feed ingredient, many researchers and associations have high-lightened in their \npublications that insects can be reared sustainably and more ecologically compared to other \nlivestock.
Source: Hungarian Veterinary Archive
Author: Han Hyun Jung
Language: English
Subfield: Insect Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2782227966