Silkworm pupa, the pupa of silkworm, is a pupa worm that becomes in cocoon after silkworm spins silk to make cocoon. Silkworms generally live in foster families, so their pupae also live here, which is delicious and nutritious.
Silkworm pupa has high nutritional value and medicinal function, and has been used as nourishing and strong food since ancient times. It is the only insect food in the Catalogue of New Food Resources as General Food Management. Dry fragrant pupa contains about 50% crude protein and 30% oil, and silkworm pupa oil contains a lot of unsaturated fatty acids and saturated fatty acids. Unsaturated fatty acids mainly include oleic acid, linoleic acid and linolenic acid, and saturated fatty acids mainly include palmitic acid and stearic acid.