The yellow mealworm, also known as the breadworm, belongs to Coleoptera, Anopheles, and Mealybug Beetle in insect taxonomy. Native to North America, introduced from the Soviet Union in the 50
s to feed our country, the yellow mealworm dried products contain 30% fat, containing protein up to 50% or more, in addition to phosphorus, potassium, iron, sodium, aluminum and other macronutrients and a variety of trace elements. The dried yellow mealworm larvae contain about 40% protein, 57% pupa, 60% adult (according to "Chinese Medicine Science and Technology News"). It is known as "protein feed treasure house".
One, feeding value
1. Protein feed treasure trove. According to expert test and analysis, yellow mealworm fresh fat content of 28.20%, protein content of up to 61% or more, in addition also contains phosphorus, potassium, iron, sodium, aluminum and other macronutrients and a variety of trace elements, and animal growth necessary for the 18 kinds of amino acids, per 100 grams of dry products containing amino acids as high as 947.91 micrograms of its nutrient content of all kinds of food, known as the "treasure house of protein feed". Its nutritional composition is the highest among all kinds of food, and it is known as "treasure house of protein feed". According to feeding determination, the nutritional value of 1 kilogram of yellow mealworm is equivalent to 25 kilograms of wheat bran, 20 kilograms of mixed feed and 100 kilograms of green fodder.
2. Improve economic efficiency. Recent decades of practice has proved that: the scorpion, centipede, mealybugs, snakes, soft-shelled turtle, bullfrogs, tropical fish and goldfish fed with yellow mealworms as feed, not only grow fast and have high survival rate, but also have strong resistance to disease, and reproduction is also greatly improved; yellow mealworms as a general livestock and poultry feed additives, can improve the yield and quality of the product, and effectively reduce the cost of feed to improve the economic benefits, and is welcomed by farmers and consumers.
Second, food value
1. quality high protein food. Yellow mealworm can not only be used as feed, but also can be eaten. Its larvae containing 56.58% crude protein, fat 28.20%, pupa containing 57% crude protein, adult insects containing 64% crude protein, its content is much higher than eggs, beef, mutton and other conventional animal foods, and easy to digest and absorb, known as the insect in the "king of protein".
2. Nutritionally rich green food. Yellow mealworm contains high protein, free amino acids for mammals 50-100 times, 11 times milk; fat-soluble vitamins a, d, e, k water-soluble vitamins B content is extremely rich, vitamin B1 is 15 times milk, vitamin B2 is 1800 times milk, vitamin B6 is 52 times milk; in addition, with the macronutrient minerals such as calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, trace mineral elements such as iron, zinc, copper, copper, copper, copper, copper and so on. In addition, with macrominerals calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, trace minerals such as iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, chromium, selenium, boron, iodine, etc., the content of nutrients are much richer than milk and meat. In the "reasonable diet, balanced nutrition" principle, the pursuit of green insect chrysanthemum dishes now become a fashion, doubly popular with people.
3. It is a delicious dish for young and old alike. Yellow mealworm taste good, unique flavor, easy to be accepted by consumers, can be baked, fried, processed into a nutty flavor of protein drinks, refined protein powder and other forms of food.
Three, health care value
"Herbal Compendium Gleanings" cloud: "foreign insects, out of foreign countries, the end of the Ming Dynasty, the beginning of the year, imported into China. ...... have fed with poria crumbs, safflower, cross cinnamon end of the person, people eat the color red and glossy lovely, into the medicine is particularly good." Where to see this worm infested 100 miles must have long-lived old man.
Now medical research has proved that the yellow mealworm's riboflavin and VE content are very high, VE has to protect the lipids in the cell membrane from peroxide damage to the antioxidant effect, is an indispensable nutrient and medicine. Yellow mealworm not only has high protein content, but also contains a complete variety of essential amino acids. Yellow mealworm fat is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, can be purified as medical and cosmetic fat, can improve the skin's anti-wrinkle function, also has a certain treatment of skin diseases and alleviate the symptoms of the role of SOD extracted from yellow mealworm as raw materials as raw materials for beauty care products, its anti-aging, anti-wrinkle, whitening, pigmentation effect is also better than the existing market products. The unique chitin and antimicrobial peptide of yellow mealworm have various functional effects such as lowering blood pressure, improving immunity, activating cells, preventing cancer, lowering blood lipids, lowering blood pressure, regulating blood glucose, anti-aging, and regulating the environment of the body, which can be used in pharmaceutical products and health care products. In addition, through the mice experiments, it is preliminarily indicated that the yellow mealworm has certain nutritional and health care effects such as growth promotion, intelligence, anti-fatigue and anti-tissue hypoxia. Yang Zhaofen and other research pointed out that: yellow mealworm larvae dry powder filtrate has better anti-fatigue, delay aging and reduce blood lipids and promote cholesterol metabolism, and can improve the mouse peripheral lymph saturation transformation and reduce the rate of bone marrow micronuclei; yellow mealworm in the blood to strengthen the body, the treatment of digestive disorders and rehabilitation, the elderly and infirm patients with the basic nutritional supplementation has a practical auxiliary role. Fourth, medicinal value in the "Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine" 1977 edition records: with peanut kernels, lotus seeds, longan, jujube, Cortex Eucommiae, safflower, betel nut, walnut meat and other feed. It is used as a medicine for tonifying qi and nourishing blood. It has the effect of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, warming the middle and regulating qi, and also cures nameless swelling and poison. Raising with saffron, jujube and walnut three kinds of drugs can enhance the medicinal properties of Yangworm, promote the human body to fully absorb and utilize, mediate the balance of yin and yang of the hematopoietic organs, achieve the effect of tonifying the kidney and filling in the marrow, strengthening the spleen and nourishing qi and blood, cooling the blood to clear the heat and detoxify the toxin, and promoting qi and activating the blood to remove blood stasis. Yangworm can treat myeloproliferative hypoplasia anemia, renewed anemia, thrombocytopenia, platelet dysfunction disease, coagulation factor deficiency, etc., with excellent efficacy, efficiency, remission rate of 100%, cure rate of more than 85%. It is also effective in the treatment of leukemia, it can improve the remission rate of leukemia and prolong the survival period. The by-products of foreign worm, such as worm dung, worm skin and other impurities, have the effect of activating blood circulation, eliminating blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain; it is effective in treating subcutaneous congestion and swelling caused by contusion and sprain. Research in recent years has shown that the foreign worm also has a good anti-aging effect. In the treatment of tumors, the use of chemotherapeutic drugs at the same time, the application of worms, can improve the body's immune function, reduce the toxic side effects of chemotherapeutic drugs, and there is a certain synergistic effect. The foreign worm can reduce the toxic side effects of cyclophosphamide, on the cyclophosphamide-induced atrophy of immune organs, leukopenia, weight loss has a significant protective effect, and enhance the inhibition of tumors.
The following picture shows the three forms of the yellow mealworm: larva, pupa, and adult