Explore the issue of heavy metal contamination in food, with a focus on edible insects.

Exploring the potential impact of Novel Foods Regulatory Framework reform on Bugvita and the edible insect industry. #EdibleInsects #FoodInn

Insects are an everyday food in many parts of the world. More than 2,000 species are known to be eaten, according to the list compiled by Yde Jongema at Wageningen University. Most of them are gathered from the wild rather than farmed. Number of insect species consumed, by country. [Source: Ron van Lammeren Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing at Wageningen University using data from Yde Jongema] What people eat When people in the UK think of eating insect

Insects have always been part of the human diet. They were among the first sources of animal food our ancestors ate, and they're still an everyday food for millions of people. This post looks at an interesting idea: that fat-rich termites may have helped our ancestors grow larger, energy-hungry brains. Much of the work on this has been done by Dr Julie Lesnik, an anthropologist at Wayne State University in Detroit, and it's set out in her book Edible Insects and Human Evoluti

Here at Bugvita we care about the welfare of farmed insects and want to share with you some of our thoughts about this important subject....

The Immeasurable Pleasure of Eating Crickets Imagine for a moment that you are sitting down to enjoy a delicious meal. The anticipation...

It's a question we get asked a lot. 'You eat insects? But why!?' The obvious answer is, 'Well, why not?' There's a whole host of reasons for us all to hop on board the insect protein bandwagon, here's our top ten: They taste great! Roasted crickets have a nutty, savoury umami flavour and cricket flour is a malty and nutty. Locusts taste like fried chicken hot out the oven and ants are zingy like citrus! Packed with easily digestible protein and essential amino acids. A health

Ingredients 200g "00" pasta flour (or strong white bread flour) 25g Bugvita cricket powder 2 medium eggs 1 tbsp olive oil ¼ tsp salt You can buy our cricket powder in a 100g pack or a 500g XL pack. Method Time: 1 hour 45 minutes Mix the cricket powder and flour and heap it up on your work surface. Make a well in the middle. Break the eggs into the well and add the oil and salt. Gradually work the flour into the eggs with your fingers until it comes together as a firm dough. A

Ingredients 50g Bugvita cricket powder 1 large ripe banana (the riper the better) ¼ tsp baking powder ¼ tsp salt 2 large eggs You can buy our cricket powder in a 100g pack or a 500g XL pack. Method Time: 20 minutes. Makes four medium pancakes. Separate the eggs. Whisk the whites with an electric whisk until they form soft peaks. In another bowl, mash the banana and mix it with the cricket powder, baking powder, salt and egg yolks until fairly smooth. A few lumps are fine. Gen

Ingredients 30g Bugvita cricket powder 400g wholemeal flour 70g strong white flour 7g fast-action yeast 1 tbsp black treacle 50g mixed seeds 1 egg yolk (optional) 1 tsp salt You can buy our cricket powder in a 100g pack or a 500g XL pack. Method Time: 2 hours 30 minutes Mix the cricket powder and both flours in a large bowl with the yeast and salt. Dissolve the treacle in 125ml warm water and stir it into the flour to make a dough that sticks to the back of the spoon. Add a l

Ingredients 20g Bugvita cricket powder 20g beetroot juice powder, or 60g fresh beetroot 1 medium banana 300ml milk of your choice (we like oat milk) You can buy our cricket powder in a 100g pack or a 500g XL pack. Method Time: 5 minutes Put everything in a blender and blend for about a minute, until smooth. Add a couple of mint leaves on top if you like.