Everything you Need to Know About Eating Insects

With a growing world population and diminishing resources, we explore the sustainable option of edible insects.

What do you think about entomphagy? Tell us about it!

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[WayneStakem]

I started off looking up watching videos on breeding roaches to feed to my tarantula because it's so expensive to buy live-food from the pet store. Now I'm here considering breeding and eating some myself.

[sahrayasmin]

finally the hakuna mattata is becoming reality 😂😂

[ChrisSmith-bbdq]

People eat shrimp, crab, and lobster all the time. Thats just a water bug. C'mon people.

[lajh]

I tried grasshoppers before and they're actually pretty good but the cockroaches and worms are a hell no for me

[notmyworld]

During the warm months, a tray of bird seed dampened and placed under a porch light will soon be full of meal worms. You have to keep the seeds wet.

[onev]

I am extremely optimistic about this. I'd have nothing against grilled locusts for dinner.

[doodelli]

Guy in video: The word that describes bug consumption is-
My brain: *h a k u n a m a t a t a*

[emy]

My mom said they eat frogs when they were little. They get them from rice fields and when cooked they taste like chicken. I guess if you grew up eating them you get used to them. So children should try different foods.

[TheTubeTempest]

it will be cool when we have food printers where we shovel in worms and it prints out delecious filet mignon

[marshallsprofile]

Why is everyone offended by the idea of eating insects? It offers more culinary variety and takes some weight off of factory farm meat production. 

Why can't we use insects, nuts and mushrooms for protein and leave large animal meats out as a special treat like we already do with lobster and shrimp? I feel like the main problem people here are complaining about here is that this doesn't solve population problems, which is retarded because it helps in so many other ways, why should not curing the world of its population issues be a big enough reason to just give up on bugs? Just adopt, bring no more than one child into the world, or abstain from having kids all together ON TOP of eating alternative sources of protein. God damn.

[PaulLeach]

In order to transition this to society, we’ll have to do what we do with other meat...remove any association we have of it with the animal it came from. Steak doesn’t look like a cow, chicken breast doesn’t look like a chicken and so on. It’s just something we call “meat” which is completely disassociated with from where it came. Insects looks exactly like insects. Most people are off put by eating a whole fish for the same reason. To transition to insect protein acceptance, the first step is to do what we do with all meat, prepare it in a way that it doesn’t look like the animal it came from

[tatebarnum]

at my grocery store they were sampling ground up insects and they werent bad they mix with oatmeal which sounds like a great idea for athletes. im having trouble finding it tho

[wangtie]

OVERPOPULATION IS A CURSE, MUST DO SOMETHING BEFORE IT BECOME TOO DIFFICULT TO CONTROL.

[minervacuervo]

I'm from Mexico. Just to clarify, we eat beef and chicken like everybody else but in some small communities and mostly not urban ones is normal to eat insects, when well cooked with a good sauce and in a tortilla they’re delicious. I’ve tried crickets myself and as long as you don’t look at the little legs they taste great. So fellow Americans please give it a try,

[Proutprutproutprout]

Hum I wonder if it would be possible to grind them into type of flour and make gnocchi or pasta out of them...

[Hexsyn]

Everything I need to know besides which insects I can eat and how to prepare them.

[aaronheinz]

Entomophagy is amazing. I love salty toasted mealworms. People population is growing and recourses are decreasing. This is the way to go

[aye]

Here I am trying to order some insect snacks to try, lol!

[dandcc]

the problem is these people are selling insects at like 5 dollars for 20g or something to line their own pockets. They only think short term. Either that, or farming insects IS that difficult. Either way, the problem is not really the consumer acceptance that we think insects are disgusting. If someone succeeds in making it commercially viable to sell grasshoppers for $4 per 2kg, hell anyone with an open mind and shortage on cash will adopt grasshoppers to their regular diet one way or the other. When there are enough people eating it regularly, their acquaintances and friends will soon follow.


As it is now, it is way too expensive, not too repulsive, to become mainstream.

[rabsaque]

I want to eat insects so bad but i don't know wich are the safe ones to eat besides wood worms, my girfriend says is not safe to eat them because they ccarry parasites and things, i find one worm on a potato the other day, i was alone in my house so i fried the little guy and eat him, crunchy and slimy bus amazingly