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- Title
Edible Insects a Novel Food Processing Industry: An Overview.
- Authors
Nitharwal, Mukesh; Kumawat, Subhita; Jatav, Hanuman Singh; Khan, Mudassar Ahmed; Chandra, Kailash; Attar, Sanjay Kumar; Dhaka, S. R.
- Abstract
Humans are consuming roughly 40 per cent of the biomass that the land and the coastal seas produce is an alarming phase. The rate at which the population is increasing and demand of food reserves to provide nutritional food from the conventional protein production sources i.e. livestock, poultry and fish unable to keep up the supply. A concept behind edible insect farming has its roots from some of character i.e. high feed conversion efficiency, much less water and land requirement and less proven to diseases and higher portion to be utilizable (lack of bones) make insects a suitable source. Rearing and harvesting of the insect is a low tech, low-capital investment option even to poorest section of society, such as women and landless workers. Insects farming provide proteins at lowest cost of 40-75 g per 100 g of dry weight of insects.
- Subjects
EDIBLE insects; INSECT food; FOOD industry; FEED utilization efficiency; INSECT rearing; FOOD industrial waste
- Publication
Agricultural Reviews, 2024, Vol 45, Issue 1, p146
- ISSN
0253-1496
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18805/ag.R-2357