Nutrinsect defies Italian food purists with cricket flour that can be incorporated into range of foods
  • rumschlumpel ( ichmagrum@feddit.de ) English
    22·
    3 years ago

    I’m still kind of puzzled about why you’d want to use something like this, instead of plant-based ingredients.

    Though obviously it doesn’t make sense to completely outlaw it, either.

    • Kevin Herrera ( kherge@beehaw.org ) English
      5·
      3 years ago

      I haven’t figured this out either, but my wild guess is the greater protein content over carbs in regular flour. I’m thinking of things like keto meal bars, or something.

  • ECB ( ECB@feddit.de ) English
    17·
    3 years ago

    Everyone here saying how awful this sounds, and I’m just sitting here excited to try a new food. I ate mealworms before and they were pretty good, so why not?

    It’s certainly not what I’m used to but it’s definitely less weird than some common foods we typically eat like cheese (which I fucking love, but if you think about it its weird as shit!)

  • AutoTL;DR ( autotldr@lemmings.world ) BBEnglish
    5·
    3 years ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    “This is very big news for us,” said Cianni, whose main motive for the business initiative was to provide an alternative, sustainable protein source.

    Since 2020, millions of crickets have been raised at the company’s plant in Montecassiano, a town in the central Marche region, where they are heat-treated before being frozen and ground into powder.

    The EU approved the sale of insects – namely crickets, locusts and darkling beetle larvae – for human consumption in early 2023, sparking a flurry of proposed regulations from the Italian government, including one aimed at ensuring insects are kept away from traditional dishes such as pasta and pizza.

    “It’s fundamental that these flours are not confused with food made in Italy,” said the agriculture minister Francesco Lollobrigida at the time.

    However, by the time the regulations became official at the end of last year, the government had relented, instead imposing strict labelling rules, such as clearly stating the product’s origin and the requirement to use Acheta domesticus, the Latin for house cricket, on packets so as to make it a little less startling to the consumer.

    “It’s good for the environment because the resources required to breed crickets and the spaces used are really small, and so emissions are almost zero,” said Cianni.

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