Exo: Protein Bars Made from Cricket Flour by Exo Exo uses a revolutionary protein source, cricket flour, that is exceptionally nutritious and uniquely sustainable. TechCrunch: "Admirably bold" Forbes: "Want to help solve the global food crisis? Eat more crickets" KCET: "The best protein bar I've ever eaten" Fast Co.Exist: "A better protein bar" If we can get to $50,000, we'll have enough orders to go straight to a co-manufacturer and produce the bars much faster and much more efficiently, allowing us to focus on recipe development and getting our product to the public. As a bonus for reaching $50,000, we will also be able to develop new recipes and bring them to you, our backers, to vote on those that go to full production. Exo will introduce to the West one of the most nutritious and sustainable protein sources in the world: insects. Health Crickets are exceptionally nutritious. Sustainability Insect protein represents the first viable solution to the global food crisis. Global Popularity Video Credit: Travis Bogosian
Can Architect-Designed Insect Farms Solve World Hunger? By 2050, it is estimated that the world’s population could reach up to 9 billion people. It’s already become increasingly difficult to sustain our food systems, as we outgrow our supply and continue to deplete farmland. So what is the answer to this frightening dilemma? Belatchew Arkitekter came up with a shudder-worthy solution: bug farms. Add To Collection Save this image to a collection The Swedish firm has designed an alternative to Stockholm’s protein production problem by developing a way to farm large quantities of edible protein within the city’s fabric. Farming crickets from an egg to their ready-to-eat condition takes the guesswork out of food production. While Westerners might cringe at the idea of eating bugs, many other cultures and countries around the world — predominantly in Asia, Latin America, and Africa — eat insects for protein on a regular basis.
Khepri | La solution entomoculture A Bold Architectural Proposal to Get People to Eat Bugs Some people might mentally retch that the United Nations, believing the world's population could hit 9 billion by 2050, thinks we should prepare to eat bugs. Not the folks at Sweden's Belatchew Arkitekter, though: They want to fast-track the insect-munching. Thus they've whipped up plans to build "vermin farms" upon Stockholm's major intersections, so that by 2018 everybody in the city will be guaranteed plentiful rations of six-legged foodstuffs. Their official name for these unconventional farms are "Buzz Buildings," presumably for the pleasant hum the millions of crickets will add to the urban soundscape. Looking like big, inflated doughnuts with sunlit gardens inside, there would be nine of them total—and if you think Belatchew hasn't done the math on whether that's enough protein for the people, you've got another thing coming: A side benefit of these breeding chambers would be their attraction to other beneficial insects, namely honeybees, they allege.
Nourriture 2.0 La nourriture semble être le nouvel Eldorado des technologies d'avant-garde. Il y a plusieurs bonnes raisons à cela : le réchauffement climatique, la surpopulation... Nous sommes aujourd'hui sept milliards d’individus, et nous atteindrons les neuf milliards en 2050. Vu la pénurie annoncée de ressources, une innovation en matière alimentaire va devenir indispensable. Mais finalement les innovations qui apparaissent aujourd’hui doivent assez peu à la "synbio" qui reste une technologie encore un peu futuriste. L'avenir de la nourriture peut se décliner sous trois catégories (combinables, évidemment). Nourriture, sauce techno Un certain nombre de startups se lancent sur le marché de la "nouvelle nourriture". Son produit phare, une mayonnaise de substitution, Just Mayo, commence à être adoptée par de gros distributeurs, aux Etats-Unis mais également en Asie, à Hong Kong. Image : Soylent. L'insecte est-il l'avenir de l'homme ? Manger des insectes ? L'esprit de la Silicon Valley Rémi Sussan
Cooking with insects: a minibeast maxifeast Que risque-t-on à manger des insectes ? Le Monde.fr | • Mis à jour le | Par Audrey Garric On le sait, l'alimentation à base d'insectes pourrait bien se généraliser au cours des prochaines décennies. L'Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) s'est prononcée en faveur du développement de l'élevage de petites bêtes à grande échelle pour parvenir à nourrir plus de 9 milliards d'êtres humains d'ici à 2030. Deux milliards de personnes en consomment déjà, particulièrement en Afrique, en Asie et en Amérique latine. En Europe, de plus en plus de restaurants, d'entreprises, et même de grandes surfaces, se lancent dans ce marché en éclosion. Risques d'allergies Résultat : la consommation d'insectes, pour l'alimentation humaine comme animale, présente différents risques. « Ces risques sont les mêmes que pour d'autres aliments plus communs, comme la viande. Limite des connaissances Flou juridique
Ento Box: The Elegant Insect Meal Of The Future Though they’re consumed in most of the world, people in the West tend to be a little squeamish about eating bugs. But a new project from a group of design students in England hopes to put edible insects in a more gourmet light. Avant-garde chefs have been trying to introduce insect eating for some time, but these students approached the question not as a gastronomical issue, but rather a design one: How do you make bugs more appealing? The answer is the Ento Box (that’s a portmanteau of bento box and entomology). Click through the slide show above to see the elegant way you’ll be eating bug-based foods in the future. This isn’t just some tounge-in-cheek project to get us to rethink our narrow palettes. On the flipside, the protein-rich diet afforded us by those vast, unsustainable herds of animals is a hallmark of the developed world. This isn’t just an exercise, the students worked with a chef and made real recipes out of real bugs.