Date: September 22, 2016
Source: Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
To become a sustainable
alternative to meat, reared crickets must be fed feeds other than the chicken
feed that is most commonly used today. Researchers from the Swedish University
of Agricultural Sciences now present a study which shows that there are weeds
and agricultural by-products that actually work as single ingredients in feeds
for crickets. The study was conducted in Cambodia, where many children suffer
from malnutrition and where the need for cheap protein is large.
The study was led by Anna Jansson,
professor of animal physiology at the Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences. The results have very recently been published in the Journal of
Insects as Food and Feed.
"Since there are both
climate and environmental benefits of eating insects, we believe that this
habit will become more common, also in Western countries. What our study shows
is that it is possible to rear crickets on feeds that don't compete with other
kinds of food production," says Anna Jansson.
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