Insect: the nutritious food for people

Can you imagine that you eat the insect? Don’t shock; the insect is the famous food in the world currently, because it has the high protein content and environmentally friendly. Yes, many peoples in the world like the insect food now, such as ant lollipop, cricket’s cookies and fried scorpion.

Insect: the nutritious food for people

Based on recorded, since thousand years ago, the insect was one of kind food that eat by human/people. Now, with increases of people’s population in the world, the insect food will be as future food for human.

The term of Insect consumption as human food is known as Entomophagy. Its came from Greece language, ‘entomon’ that mean insect and ‘phagein’ that mean eat.

This term only use for refer the people who eat the insect. Now, there are more 1000 kind of insect has been consummate by 80% nation in the world. This is happened at United States, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Africa.

Even, currently at Thailand, there are the insect farms that governance by professionalism because it can be producing a lot of profit on year by year.

Also, on last May, the conference of Insect as World Food Source was held at Netherland. This conference has recommended that insect as nutritious food source. On this conference that attended by 450 researcher in the world, it mentioned that there are more that 2000 kind of insect that feasible to eat by people.

FAO also recommended that insect as the food that has high vitamin and also environmentally friendly farms.

So, Do you want to try eat the insect?

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