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American Farmer At Grocery Store Showing Showing Popular Foods Could Soon Have Bugs Added

Posted on 4/17/26 at 1:55 pm
Posted by Ailsa
Member since May 2020
7391 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 1:55 pm

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“There are at least six or seven companies in this world that's now using crickets, insects, to make flour.”

“Insect Gourmet says insect-related businesses in the Western world are producing insect proteins for foods, beverages, confectionaries, and other things such as butters, oils, and does as well as spice and seasoning.

So it's most likely going to show up not be labeled and you're not going to know it and pretty much everything you eat it is expected to reach 4.6 billion in sales by 2027 and produce 1.4 million tons of insect protein.

ADM, Archer Midland Daniels, is in the process of producing insect foods in Decatur, Illinois right now in partnership with Innova Foods. That's on the ADM website.Says that crickets are 60% protein.

However, Iowa State University etymology department says that crickets are only about 12.9%. And this would explain why the NIH, when they do their comparisons of protein levels in cricket flower, they compare them to plants, not animals.

Cleveland Clinic said that about 30% of the cricket farms looked at have parasites that carry disease to humans and that edible insects are as underestimated reserve of human and animal parasites. Yup, Cleveland Clinic said that.

That they are an underestimated reservoir of parasites to humans and animals. According to the NIH, it is stated that they claim that the exoskeletons, or the chitin, is a digestible fiber, but they don't know how it digests.”

That’s not all, according to Daily Mail: PepsiCo experimenting with WORMS as a protein source for everything from drinks to snacks

- PepsiCo food company is looking for protein sources for their food and drink

- The firm posted a request for new protein sources on an innovation website

- It's looking for plant-based, fungi based or insect based protein sources

- They mention sources they've done 'extensive work' with, including cricket powder, meal worm powder and duck weed - a plant that floats on freshwater

- Meal worm powder is made of meal worms ground into a finer powder, but they can also be baked or fried, and they're usually used as bird feed or fishing vair

Bill Gates is involved:
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Innova Market Insights Collaboration:
A recent search result indicates that Kamel Chida, an Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, joined Innova Market Insights' Global Insights Director to discuss the necessity of "lower cost nutrition" and global food trends.

Goal of Investments:
Gates has stated that to address climate change, "clean products" (like synthetic fats and meats) must become as cheap as "dirty products". He has expressed optimism that lab-grown, or "fake," meat products will eventually be very good.

Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
20596 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 1:56 pm to
Yuck
Posted by Night Vision
Member since Feb 2018
21448 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 1:57 pm to
Some have already been doing it using alternate names for the bug parts.
Posted by TechBullDawg
Member since May 2014
2438 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 2:01 pm to
For example?
Posted by crimson crazy
Member since Oct 2008
20865 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 2:02 pm to
Crickets and ants are loaded with protein. If you eat Cheetos you’re used to eating disgusting food anyway.
Posted by lsuconnman
Baton rouge
Member since Feb 2007
4996 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 2:05 pm to
Tyson made a big bug protein R&D investment last year. But, they insist it’s only for livestock feed…for now
Posted by Ailsa
Member since May 2020
7391 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 2:05 pm to
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Some have already been doing it using alternate names for the bug parts.


And some food producers use products that already contain bugs. I knew a man who went to work for a large cookie/ cracker/snack company and it was his job to add the flour. When he would open up a bag and find it full of bugs, he put it aside until the foreman came over and asked what he was doing. He told him to go ahead and use them. Many of our foods already contain insect parts but to use them intentionally as a protein source or flavor when they carry parasites, is not healthy.
Posted by Ailsa
Member since May 2020
7391 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 2:09 pm to
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Crickets and ants are loaded with protein. If you eat Cheetos you’re used to eating disgusting food anyway.


I eat very little processed food...no snack foods or store bought bread, I make my own.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
102240 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:04 pm to
While I’m not an advocate at all for eating bugs directly, I don’t see issue with the protein powder if it’s safe and doesn’t alter the flavor.

Yes bugs carry parasites and such but so does red meat and poultry. That’s why you cook it. I assume to make the protein powder you have to bake and dry the bugs so that should kill any bacteria or parasites
Posted by timdonaghyswhistle
Member since Jul 2018
20970 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:13 pm to
I've been telling people that Pepsi has tasted funny lately.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
80439 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:14 pm to
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And some food producers use products that already contain bugs. I knew a man who went to work for a large cookie/ cracker/snack company and it was his job to add the flour. When he would open up a bag and find it full of bugs, he put it aside until the foreman came over and asked what he was doing. He told him to go ahead and use them. Many of our foods already contain insect parts but to use them intentionally as a protein source or flavor when they carry parasites, is not healthy.


You also get unintended bug parts in food. You're not going to get all the bugs out of wheat or fruits and vegetables, so if those get ground up and mixed in, the bugs are going to come along for the ride.

Posted by Champagne
Sabine Free State.
Member since Oct 2007
54868 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:31 pm to
You vill eat ze wurms

You vill eat ze bugs
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
10810 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 3:40 pm to
food labeling......far more important to label bug sourced, rather than foreign or genetically modified
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
74713 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 4:58 pm to
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Yuck

You already eat bugs, rodent droppings, hair, all sorts of things if you currently consume any grain product in the country.
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
20596 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 5:02 pm to
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You already eat bugs, rodent droppings, hair, all sorts of things if you currently consume any grain product in the country.


As an unfortunate, unavoidable byproduct with limitations…. Not a nutritional aspiration.
Posted by Flats
Member since Jul 2019
27978 posts
Posted on 4/17/26 at 5:05 pm to
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I've been telling people that Pepsi has tasted funny lately.


If a bit of protein from a cricket leg finds its way into a Pepsi it will improve the nutritional content.
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