The larvae of various lepidopteran insects such as meat maggots, grasshoppers, earthworms, scorpions, ants, centipedes, and mealworms are all eaten by chickens. Of course, they are all high-protein animals with high nutritional value.
The nutritional value of these small animals is very high, but only some of them can be eaten. For example, scorpions and grasshoppers are cooked locally. After frying the chili peppers and dipping them in soy sauce, orange and white sugar, they are very delicious. But now You can eat food and wine; you can also eat ants. My mother used to drink ant soup when she had a cough.
I have never seen anyone eat other insects. .
It should be possible. Aren’t we talking about food now? Many places specifically raise some insects for people to eat. Experts believe that the reason why insects are a protein resource that humans can rely on is not only because of their high protein content, but also because insects are the largest group in the animal kingdom. According to biologists, the total weight of insects in the world may exceed all other species. The combined weight of animals is more than 10 times the biomass of humans. Because, as the world's population increases and protein supplies become increasingly scarce, insects will be an important way to solve this problem. In fact, in some areas of southern Africa, two-thirds of the animal protein consumed by residents comes from insects.
According to experts’ predictions, by the 21st century, insects will become the third largest source of protein after microorganisms and cellular organisms, because insects have many types, large numbers, wide distribution, fast reproduction, and high protein content. , low fat, low cholesterol, reasonable nutritional structure, less meat fiber, and easy to absorb. It has outstanding advantages and is superior to plant protein, and has attracted the attention of countries around the world.
(1) Development of insect food
Development of insect food abroad. Mexico is the home of insect food in the world today. More than 370 kinds of insects can be eaten there, including the famous Mexican caviar. The sauce is not made from fish, but from fly eggs. Canned insects, preserves, chocolates, etc. from the United States and Europe are incredibly valuable. At the "Insect Restaurant" in Paris, you can eat fried flies, ant lion heads, stewed cricket soup, roasted cockroaches, steamed maggots, beetle pies and more than 100 kinds of insect dishes made from the larvae or pupae of butterflies, cicadas, silkworms and other insects. Nepalese people wrap live bee larvae in cloth and squeeze them, frying the squeezed out liquid like scrambled eggs. Thai people eat water bugs dug out of the ground with chili peppers. Salt ants are also a popular snack food in Thailand. Colombians don't eat melon seeds or peel peanuts in the theater, but eat fried ants. A dish that Cameroonians entertain distinguished guests is to add palm maggots with salt, pepper and onions, cook them in a coconut shell over low heat, and have a unique flavor. Cambodia’s fried crickets are a trendy food that nourishes and nourishes the skin; Indonesians love to eat baked butterflies; Texas, a state with a population of 12 million in the United States, consumed US$50 million in insect food in 1989. Japan uses earthworm powder to develop nutritional and health care products, and the United States uses earthworm meat and beef to make hamburgers. China's ethnic minorities, such as the Dai people, eat a variety of insects, such as "Ant Scrambled Eggs", "Sa Fried Lai", "Zhiliao Bei Meat Stuffing", "Cricket Sauce", "Baked Banana Leaf Ants", etc. Modern Chinese people eat more insects. For example, people in Tianjin like to eat locusts, people in Guangdong like to eat dragon lice, people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Sichuan like to eat silkworm pupae, people in Fujian like to eat fried earthworms, people in Northeast China like to eat ants and fried beetles, and people in Shandong People like to eat cicada nymphs, and northerners have developed a craze for cooking scorpions. In recent years, the development craze for insect delicacies has swept across the country. In addition to the above-mentioned traditional delicacies, many insect health foods have also been effectively developed, such as processing silkworm chrysalis using fermentation methods to produce silkworm chrysalis bean paste and silkworm chrysalis bread; China Infant and Child Food Nutrition Research Institute Silkworm pupa powder has been successfully developed using silkworm chrysalises. Its protein content is three times higher than that of beef, and it is a complete nutritional health food. Heilongjiang uses silkworm moths to produce silkworm moth wine, which sells well at home and abroad. Yunnan and Jiangsu have successfully developed diamond wine and ant powder using ants as raw materials, which have unique effects in treating rheumatoid and cancer. Hubei uses boat moths that harm forests to extract edible oil. (2) Advantages of insect food
① The protein content of insects is higher than that of beef, pork, chicken, and fish. For example, dried wasps contain about 81% protein, bees 43%, cicadas 72%, grasshoppers 70%, crickets 65%, rice locusts 60.08%, tussah pupae 52.14%, fly maggots 60.88%, yellow powder 63.19% of insects, 64.50% of spiny ants, 58.60% of red-breasted spiny ants, and 72% of earthworms; ② High in essential amino acids: ants contain a variety of free acids, enzymes, vitamins, and phospholipids , minerals, etc. Silkworm chrysalis contains a variety of amino acids necessary for the human body; ③ has health care functions: scorpions and cicadas have been used as medicine since ancient times. Scorpions have the functions of dispelling wind, antispasmodic, analgesic, and fighting poisons. They are mainly used to treat convulsions, convulsions, rheumatism and other diseases. They help to alleviate the aging process and have certain preventive and inhibitory effects on diseases of the nervous system and cerebrovascular system. ④ Compared with breastfeeding Animals grow fast, and they often eat things that poultry cannot digest: such as wood and dung. Crickets can convert plants into biomass five times as fast as cattle; ⑤ High reproductive rate: one female can produce hundreds or thousands of grains eggs; ⑥ The product is produced quickly: 26 holes produce one generation in about 30 days at 29°C; ⑦ The investment is low: an average of 3.2kg of feed can produce 1 kg of insects; ⑧ Wide use: eggs, larvae, pupae and adults can all be used as food.
The eggs can also breed parasitic wasps and prevent and control agricultural and forestry pests. The larvae can be used as insect seeds for mass breeding and production by professional households; the adults can be used as specimens for viewing. It can be processed into high-grade soy sauce, canned food, wine, health drinks, etc. (3) Development of insects
The dominant food in the 21st century is functional food, and insect food is a typical functional food. The biomass of insects exceeds the total biomass of other organisms by 10 times, making it a Renewable natural resources with huge potential. Insect bodies have the characteristics of high protein content, complete types of amino acids, rich trace elements, etc., and contain many biologically active substances. The amount of free amino acids contained in insect blood is dozens of times that of human blood, with about 20 types, especially Lysine is the most abundant.
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