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If you say insects, you say proteins.When you are searching the protein content of insects, you can be a bit confused by finding numbers very different from each other. The first reason is that, as we know, all the insect species have different nutritional values. The second reason is that the prot...

ARE INSECTS A FOOD? This is probably the first question that came into your mind when you clicked on this website: are insects a food? We’ve always seen them as dirty and annoying creatures, and when we find one, the last thing we want is to take it and put it in our mouth. This is because that inse...

We're happy to announce that 21Bites is online, born from the previous experience of Crunchy Bites! 21Bites is the first e-commerce platform in Europe where consumers can buy edible insects products of the best european companies today on the market, a unique commercial platform for carefully-selec...

We see insects every day, they invade our houses and gardens, they basically are everywhere and it seems weird to think of them as food. Although we are used to considering animals of every kind as food, those with more than 4 legs are always unpopular. Yet there are many countries in the world that...

The biggest problem with the introduction of insects in the Western diet is definitely cultural. As many people have no problem in eating shrimps or lobsters, the thought of eating insects is disgusting, even “animal” or “primitive”.Yet, until the end of the late nineteenth century, lobsters were co...