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Turns out, edible insects like grasshoppers, crickets and silkworms are rich sources of antioxidants — packing five times more antioxidants than fresh orange juice, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Nutrition. More
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…still not gonna eat ’em, thanks anyway…
Well they are counted as a clean food but, pass.
Like Super and grool, yea, I can’t adjust my diet at this age. And thank you for the information. I will ask my children if they are interested, but I don’t think it will be a positive response in regards to the “Dad! A wasp is in the house!” wailing.
I ate a couple ‘cricket flour’ chips. They taste just like regular chips, thanks to the flavored salt – but all I could think of was that I was munching on bugs. I’ll pass.
I will not eat bugs, willingly.
This used to be taught in every Military Survival School.
Hell, I can’t even eat Sushi.
…I have a Bearded Dragon. Watch one of THOSE guys crunch a cricket, and you SURE aren’t gonna want one for YOURSELF…
I’ll drink five times as much orange juice instead, thank you very much…
…of course, spend some time on a motorcycle without a full-face helmet, and it isn’t really OPTIONAL…
You know, it’s not the crunchy parts that bother me. After all, insects have protein-rich exoskeletons. No, it’s all the creamy-yellow, nasal-green goo guts on the inside. I mean, what IS all that stuff? And how could it POSSIBLY taste good?
If Burger King comes out with artificial insect patties made from beef I’ll definitely try them.
“Grasshopper … you are free when you can grab the pebble from my hand”
I’ve learned by accident, however, that those little, black, sugar ants have a sweet-sour taste. But you’d need about 100,000 of them for a small meal.
Snails, on the other hand – delicious! (You’re cringing.) Bring on the French sauteed escargot in a creamy garlic sauce…
I’ll just hit the bath house and sweat out the toxins instead. And noooooooo……..my bath house isn’t gay!
FYI Health Nuts – Cancer cells hate oxygen, antioxidants are great for cancer growth!
The more you know…
Hey Jerry…where is that located?
What if they are filled with “Bavarian cream, chocolate custard and Minnesota lingonberry jam,”?
Do you know why Americans don’t eat bugs? BECAUSE WE DON’T HAVE TO.
I’ll stay with the OJ.
Being a motorcycle enthusiast………well, never mind.
Jim Bean is also an antioxidant, isn’t it?
The world’s poor eat bugs. Do they look any healthier?
Nice try nutrition science, nice try.
Next month they will be telling us bugs are full of toxins.
I ate a grasshopper when I was rolling down 13 on my bike. I almost wound up in the corn. It took three days to get the taste out.
Well then milk them somehow, pasteurize it, make it taste like nothing at all, use it as a supplement and don’t tell me where it came from.
You’ll sell billions!
If you squint a little, a nice tasty Chesapeake Bay blue crab looks a lot like a giant louse. Lobsters are sometimes colloquially called “bugs”. Insects and the like, and crustaceans are all arthropods, making them cousins of a sort.
The right to “the pursuit of happiness” is a great thing, and a hallmark of individualism. Find the idea of eating bugs unpleasant is anybody’s right, just as it is the right of weirdos such as your Uncle Al to eat the tasty ones.
But I get the heebie-jeebies at the though of them crawling on my skin!
The very idea of eating bugs just plain bugs me. No bugs for me ever, the libs can have their bugs and get more buggier from eating them.
MMMMM Grasshopper…The Other Green Meat! It’s what’s for dinner.
@ Al,
I too love blue crabs. My brother though refuses, stating that he won’t eat spiders……..
No bug dinners for me, thank you. I nearly puked when I was about 7 or 8 and saw my kitty eat a grasshopper. I saw her kill it but nearly did me in when she started crunching on it. … excuse me, I think I need to …
Jimmy, it was the “creamy-yellow, nasal-green goo guts” that got me! 😯
Throw another shish-ka-hopper-bob on the barbie.
Maybe I should get a grasshopper instead of a dog
I’ll stick with Popeye, and ‘eats me spinach’. And maybe some kale n bacon, too. And skip the bug sandwich.
Isn’t a grasshopper a drink? Or the name of that young Kungfu fellah?
Ate a cricket when I was extremely hungry in the army and hadn’t eaten in about 26 hours. Reminded me of a pumpkin seed. You have to take off the back legs though or you’ll get them stuck in your teeth or the back of your throat. Was also the last bug I ate knowingly, been over 20 years.
Oh people you are just too too (except for Sapper Chris)…
Shrimp and catfish are pretty disgusting looking alive and raw… and for that matter, while live pigs look like food to me, raw chicken surely don’t appeal.
I think bug food and food products is worthy of some research. Be brave.
What is the protein content??
You will all be surprised when the ‘Big Potato’ gets dropped and you will be looking for a bug to eat.
A good mortar and pestal will do, when needed.
How bout some Crawfish?? BUGS in water.
Frontiers of Nutrition is a rich source of leftist bullshit. Just crawling with it.
Raw, no. Cooked or nuked, maybe. Covered in dark chocolate, probably.
How many carbs does a standard size cricket contain is what I would need to know before I eat it.
This topic is very interesting and I am interested but do not know where to find, thankfully you create this topic, hope everyone will help me
That’s an interesting discovery. If that would boom, bet there will be some business of bug culture.