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December 16, 2023

Grow Your Own Food

Netherlands-based designer Kyran Knauf has created a tabletop device that allows users to breed and harvest crickets as an alternative protein source.

Called Crikorama, the machine can host a continuous cycle of approximately 3o crickets through their lifecycles before they are harvested and eaten as a “sustainable” replacement for meat.
Kyran Knauf creates tabletop cricket farm for household meat alternative — https://www.dezeen.com/2023/12/15/kyran-knauf-tabletop-cricket-farm-for-alternate-food-source/

Photo source: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crikorama/

YUM!

July 4, 2023

DO NOT EAT (crickets for iron)

Iron absorption from house crickets and fortified maize porridge with crickets is low, which may be explained by the presence of chitin and other inhibitors in the cricket biomass.
Absorption of iron from edible house crickets: a randomized crossover stable-isotope study in humans — The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 116, Issue 4, October 2022, Pages 1146–1156, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqac223

Always remember to eat a well balanced diet.

And find other dietary sources for iron besides crickets.

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This Giant Automated Cricket Farm Is Designed To Make Bugs A Mainstream Source Of Protein

Source: This Giant Automated Cricket Farm Is Designed To Make Bugs A Mainstream Source Of Protein

We made a Target run today. I looked but couldn’t find any cricket flour on the shelves.

I guess we’re not ready for entomophagy yet.

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