Insect You May Consider Eating

Insects are excellence choice of protein. It contain all the amino acids our body needs, the protein it contains is often higher than that of meat, pork, mutton, fish and chicken. They are excellence source of minerals, vitamins and polyunsaturated fats. They are also high in iron and zinc.

There are 1909 edible species of edible insects that man can eat as an alternative source of food. There is need to enlighten people that most of the food contain bugs in them. We try to remove the much we can but not completely. There are bugs in maize, beans, fruits, tubers and vegetable and we eat them consciously or unconsciously. Eating of insects has been an old long practise among people in Africa and Asia and has historically been consider part of a healthy diet.

Examples of bugs you could eat are:

Grasshopper

Eating insect dates back to ancient time, way back to the era of john the Baptist who the Bible says eat locust and honey in the wilderness. Grasshopper is eaten as food in place like Mexico, China, Indonesia and the Middle East. There are varieties of grasshopper meals like tortillas, fried grasshopper. It is boiled, salted and sun dried in the Middle East.

Crickets

There are varieties of cricket that is eaten by man and has become part of people diets.  In Cambodia,Thailand and the southern part of Vietnam, cricket is commonly eaten as a snack. It is prepared by deep frying the soaked and cleaned insect in oil.

Termite

Termites are eating in many cultures around the world. It is consumed in countries and continent like Asia, North and South American and in Africa. Termites have high nutritional value because they have adequate fat and protein in them and also have a pleasant. It can be fried in oil and also roasted

Weevils

A weevil is a type of beetle from the Curculionoidea superfamily. This is an ancient practice that tends to be concentrated in certain parts of the world, notably tropical and sub-tropical regions, where there is a diversity of large insects that are suitable for eating. weevils don,t have many parasites because they don’t feed on animals. They eat what we eat. If we get ecoli from them, that means they got ecoli from something they ate in our homes.

Any option from the insect mentioned above that you want to consider eating i bet you you will get all the nutritional value you need for a healthy life.