You can eat. Crickets contain fiber, such as chitosan, which is a polysaccharide different from the dietary fiber of fruits and vegetables. Fiber is the food source of intestinal microorganisms, and some fibers, such as prebiotics, can promote the reproduction of intestinal probiotics. The researchers designed experiments to observe whether insect fibers have an effect on intestinal microorganisms.

Insects have the characteristics of high protein content, low protein fiber, easy absorption of nutrients by human body, short breeding generation, high breeding index, suitability for industrial production and abundant resources, and become ideal food resources to be developed urgently.

Since the appearance of human beings, insects have been regarded as delicacies in many countries and regions in the world, and each has its own unique eating types, methods and customs. In Africa, crickets are a delicacy for residents of Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Botswana in Africa.

In Europe, European residents are used to eating insects such as locusts, scarabs and ants. In North America, Mexico is known as the "land of eating insects", eating more than 370 kinds of insects, among which "braised agave aphids", "Mexican caviar" and "ant dishes" are the three most popular delicacies. In Asia, Japanese people like to eat locusts, bee larvae, bee pupae, silkworm pupae and larvae and nymphs of Trichoptera.

Pakistanis like moths, Egyptians especially like patterned beetles, and Arabs regard locusts, scorpions and mantises as delicacies. In China, as early as 3,000 years ago, the history of insect-eating recorded that ants, cicadas and bees were processed for emperor's sacrifices and banquets.

Northerners like to eat locusts, silkworm chrysalis, cicadas and bean moth larvae; People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang like to eat silkworm chrysalis; Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi prey on dragon lice; Sichuan's fart, bamboo shoots, oil grasshoppers, oil thieves and other insects are the favorites of gourmets and drinkers. Taiwan Province compatriots love to eat "crispy crickets"; Xiangxi people are interested in fried wasp larvae.

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A research team led by Valerie Stull, a doctoral student, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently conducted a six-week study involving 20 male and female health test subjects aged 18 to 48.

In the first two weeks, half of the participants ate a "controlled" breakfast, including an ordinary muffin and milkshake, while the other half added 25 grams of powdered cricket powder to the muffin and milkshake. Each participant eats a normal breakfast in the next two weeks, and then in the last two weeks, those who start eating cricket eat a normal breakfast, and those who start eating normal breakfast eat cricket.

Phoenix. Com- Who said that crickets can only be used to fight cricket? Cricket food has been introduced to Britain, which is rich in nutrition and fragrant in smell.