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How about insects like crickets (1). Claims to have 13g of protein per 20g powder. (1) https://ca.entomofarms.com/products/organic-cricket-powder https://ca.en
by barbazoo 3y ago
How about insects like crickets (1). Claims to have 13g of protein per 20g powder.
(1) https://ca.entomofarms.com/products/organic-cricket-powder https://ca.entomofarms.com/products/organic-cricket-powder
- loopdoend 3y agoI will not eat the bugs
- histories 3y agoNo one's forcing you
- z3ncyberpunk 3y agoThere is a literal global organization trying to do just this.
- fnordian_slip 3y agoThere is a literal global organization trying to force us to eat bugs? Could we please not discuss ridiculous conspiracy theories on hn? Reddit is already infected with qanon an the like, we don't need that rubbish here. Thank you.
- londons_explore 3y agoYa know, red food dye for most of the 20th century was ground up bugs... The only reason we don't do it now was that it's kinda expensive compared to lab made dyes.
- mythrwy 3y agoAlso some people are quiet allergic to cochineal, like life threatening anaphylactic shock allergic.
- konfusinomicon 3y agoRIP Ocean Spray Mauna Lai juice drink. the ingredients list on that opened my eyes to the red bug food coloring conspiracy
- pigpang 3y agoYou already eat crabs, crayfish, shrimp, and honey. Asian peoples also consume many other insects as food, which reduces the demand and price for Western food.
- iamacyborg 3y agoThere’s a world of difference between eating an insect and eating honey though.
- vinhcognito 3y agoNot much between a cockroach and a lobster though
- belorn 3y agoHas the shell, legs, head, intestine and organs been removed from the cockroach so that only the meat is left? I would like to see the machinery needed to replicate the edible part of a lobster abdomen (or tail as it is called) in a cockroach. The part that people generally eat on a lobster is the muscles of the claws and the muscles of the abdomen. The rest is generally discarded. It similar to how most people don't tend to eat the hair of cows, but rather the meat from cow muscles. I would claim that it is actually a large difference between eating a cockroach and a lobster.
- konfusinomicon 3y agodrown it in butter and whos gonna know the difference?
- wintermutestwin 3y agoYes, like other meats, insects have good protein:carb and protein:fat. Specifically with that powder, 13:4 protein:fat and 13:2 protein:carb
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoEven though insect exoskeleton and fungi are both made of chitin, I find bouncy fungi tissue kind of fun to chew, while bug parts are crunchy in a sort of uncomfortable get-stuck-in-your-teeth sort of way, like the downsides of popcorn, but with less upside. I also tried some "chirps" which were chips made with cricket powder, and then the texture just wasn't right. Hopefully the right chef is out there to change my mind, but for now I'm team fungus all the way.
- barbazoo 3y agoI got the cricket powder I linked and I put it in sometimes when I cook or bake something. You can't taste it or smell it so it doesn't feel like eating insects, although there is nothing wrong with that either. I recommend giving it a try. Beware that crickets and shellfish seem to be similar in terms of allergens though.
- redweer 3y agoI ate some food made with mealworm powder this weekend - it blew my mind. Some real good chefs cooked it up, they did blueberry donuts made with 20% mealworm powder. They also did tacos, where the tortillas were 20% mealworm powder, and the rest was just really good veggies/beans/sauce. They had fried ones with crickets you could sprinkle on top.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoMaybe I've just been hanging out with the wrong crickets.
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- matheusmoreira 3y ago... Are you seriously advocating that people eat insects? I thought that was just a dystopian meme.
- barbazoo 3y agoI just look at the nutritional profile and the conditions under which they are produced and see a good alternative to industrial meat (cow, pig, ...) production.
- soco 3y agoI think you should be aware that the world is much bigger than the US and in many other countries insects are part of their traditional cuisine: "Over 2 billion people are estimated to eat insects on a daily basis." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insects_as_food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insects_as_food
- matheusmoreira 3y agoI'm not american, I'm brazilian. I'm very aware of the fact you mentioned and I think it's disgusting. I work hard because I want to live well in general and that includes not being reduced to eating literal insects. I seriously didn't think I'd have to justify this. Why does everyone single out americans anyway? Do you think the rest of the world is okay with eating insects? No way. We want to eat well too. We want to live well.
- soco 3y agoReducing the entire world to your standards - including what means "eating well" - is common around here to come from that country. But I was wrong in that assumption. And to your other question: yes I am fine eating insects, as a matter of fact I do and don't feel at all dystopian.
- fnordian_slip 3y agoHow come so many Americans are afraid of eating insects? I have often seen this meme, and never understood it. I know that the average American is a bit more squeamish about a lot of things, from nudity to eating raw meat. The former can be explained by the puritan influence, the latter by the food standards which would possibly make things like Mett[0] a bit unsafe. This, however - together with the opposition to walkable cities - I can't wrap my head around. How can eating an insect burger be worse than eating chicken nuggets? [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett