Edible Insects

[delicket]

Hi everyone!

We are an edible insect startup based in London called Delicket and we are developing a new, super healthy and sustainable snack bar containing insect powder. We have made a very short survey to gather information on your likes and dislikes and it would mean a lot for us if you took 30 seconds of your time to answer our questionnaire

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/T5PLJVF

Thank you very much!

 

[Morning Glory]

I've completed your survey. I felt rather guilty ticking the box to say I wouldn't eat a whole insect! I'm aware of the nutritional value etc. I am obviously suffering from cultural brainwashing as I will happily eat prawns which, after all, resemble insects!

 

[buckytom]

Insect powder? Sure, why not. I've had insects in survival training where they were ground into a soup.

But whole, with legs and antennae and bits that get stuck in my throat?

Absolutely not. Gack!

 

[sidevalve]

Not too sure of the value of the insect powder though. After all there are many other things which if reduced to a powder could be used in food [bone, plankton offal perhaps ?] either eat the insect [fried roasted etc] or we seem to be just drifting into the realm of 'padding out' the food item with any available [and cheap] protein - soylent green next perhaps]

 

[The Late Night Gourmet]

I have eaten crickets (on purpose, and not just as a dare). They were dried and served in different flavors: spicy cheddar, buttermilk ranch, and salt & vinegar. In each case, the flavoring was obviously artificial. Probably for this reason, the salt & vinegar wasn't bad, but the others suffered from the poor quality of the flavoring. Crickets have sort of a nutty taste, which I can see leveraging in the flavor. A chocolate-covered cricket actually works pretty well if you think of it that way.

The other things (worms, grubs) sound like the stuff of nightmares.not sure if I could get past the squishiness, no matter how good it tastes.

 

[Dados1950]

Without insects pest control companies would go out of business..

As my kids would say "No way, Jose"" !!