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| It's Official: European Food Will Now Contain Crickets |
| 2023-01-26 |
| [RedState] If you’ve not yet consumed crickets, you may soon — particularly if you’re a partaker of European fare. The European Union is putting the “pow” in “powder.” It’s giving eaters an explosion of insect compliments of a pinch of arthropod. From now on, those overseas will be bound to eat ground cousins of grasshoppers. Following a three-year review, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 went into effect Tuesday. It allows food producers to put cricket powder in flour-based products. In its scientific opinion, the [European Food Safety Authority] concluded that Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder is safe under the proposed conditions of use and use levels. … [T]hat scientific opinion gives sufficient grounds to establish that Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder when used in [an assortment of food] fulfills the conditions for its placing on the market… Cricket powder will be permitted in the following: Multigrain Bread and Rolls The original application to start bugging people’s plates came courtesy of Cricket One, a company promoting “classic protein for a modern world.” |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #12 Ate fried crickets, scorpions and tarantulas in Siem Reap with bro in law and sis. The tarantulas still had hairy legs and were hard to get down. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2023-01-26 21:53 |
| #11 Interesting that crickets is listed as one of the "clean food" in the Bible. Yet, I don't know any Jewish people eating them willing. That’s the locust native to the Middle East, Seeking cure. When that flies, they eat everything green down to the ground, so God gave special permission. But about half the Jews of the world live where thr locust doesn’t, and most of the rest live in Israel, which understands both pesticides and preparing for this regular catastrophe, so they never get to the point where locusts are the only option. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-01-26 21:37 |
| #10 After watching 2022 unfold, I'm thinking of growing a chitinous exoskeleton myself. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2023-01-26 19:19 |
| #9 Cornmeal anyone? |
| Posted by: Beacis 2023-01-26 18:29 |
| #8 Interesting that crickets is listed as one of the "clean food" in the Bible. Yet, I don't know any Jewish people eating them willing. |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2023-01-26 18:16 |
| #7 This story, could have been from the Bee. Yuck, "Let them eat |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2023-01-26 17:49 |
| #6 When eating chocolate covered ants just pretend they're Raisinettes. |
| Posted by: jpal 2023-01-26 15:49 |
| #5 #3 Magpie, that is actually good news! Now after my workout, when I want protein to help build up the muscles I've just exercised, a good chocolate bar will be just the thing! |
| Posted by: Tom 2023-01-26 15:26 |
| #4 I remember back in school when the Killjoys had their moment of gross out the kids about modern food production. Chocolate Ice Cream was 'the worst'. Flour has a higher allowed parts per unit too, IIRC. Its something to keep to a minimum rather than aspire saturation. I am adventurous in my eating. There are bugs I'd try as a meal. Not as a lifestyle. Not crickets. Along the lines of mossomo there, I remember when The Best Diet Protein Is Seafood, and all sorts went strictly seafood, and ended up with heavy metal poisoning. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-01-26 14:21 |
| #3 *Shrug* Peanut Butter and Chocolate Milk contain 'bug parts' as well. Ever notice that Chocolate Milk isn't rated 'Grade A' like other milk? It's because insects get into the cocoa powder and get ground into itty bitty pieces during processing and they can't feasibly remove them. Same with that chocolate bar... Yum! Insect Protein! |
| Posted by: magpie 2023-01-26 13:14 |
| #2 I remember when Eat Ze Bugz was a kookoo conspiracy. Ah, October. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-01-26 12:59 |
| #1 I did a deep dive into this. Bug Armor (exoskeleton) is Chitin. Bug Protein is ground up bugs. Bug Protein contains Chitin. Chitin digests into Chitosan. Chitosan is cancer food. Literally the white paper I read, they were using chitosan as a substrate to cultivate cancers for research. A NIH article /study concludes - Chitosan promotes cancer progression and stem cell properties in association with Wnt signaling in colon and hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Another paper I read - they target a Chitin Glucosamine found in cancer cells as a possible treatment for cancer. "... although not found in normal mammalian cells, a chitin (β-1,4-linked N-acetyl-d-glucosamine) or a chitin-like polysaccharide (e.g., hyaluronan) may exist as a cancer-associated glycan..." |
| Posted by: mossomo 2023-01-26 12:41 |