Cricket powder is commonly added to many foods under the name "Acheta powder" or "Acheta protein" and is "being promoted as a good thing." Although insects are not generally considered a staple of ...

When you’re on the frontier of food – a land full of experimentation – sometimes you have to sleep with the lights on. Jakub Dzamba, a Ph.D. candidate at McGill’s architecture school, was ...

For six years now, Sarah Schlafly has been working to make crickets a popular protein choice for people. Her Mighty Cricket, founded in 2018, initially focused on persuading consumers that cricket ...

A new kind of Black Plague is upon us — a plague of little black crickets. They're in the corners of bedrooms at night, keeping us awake with their chirping. They're creeping under doors and through ...

It used to be that two sorts of people in this part of western Kenya ate crickets: the hungry, and singers who believed consuming the chirping insects would improve their voice. Times have changed. In ...

BANGKOK — Bugs in a gourmet kitchen are usually something to be squashed or swatted. But at Le Cordon Bleu, the esteemed French cooking school, chefs and food scientists spent a week simmering, ...

To a human, microplastics are very small at less than 5 millimeters (mm) wide. But to an insect, microplastics might be the same size as the food they usually eat. Researchers reporting in the journal ...