In the midst of a food allergy epidemic, it is important to be aware of all of the possible allergens that people eat, knowingly or unknowingly. Even in the Western world, we each unwittingly eat ...

In the mid-2010s, we were told the edible insects were about to take off in the U.S. and Europe in a big way. But a decade later, the bug food industry is in turmoil, with start-ups closing down and ...

While many Westerners find the idea of eating beetles or crickets unappetizing, this view is actually a global outlier. For roughly two billion people worldwide, eating insects — known as entomophagy ...

But you know, we really have to be careful about eating insects, and eating insects in places where there are no pesticides and there's sort of a pristine environment, and if you're eating them with ...

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“We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.” This proclamation came from, of all people, an insect researcher. Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke pitched eating bugs in his 2010 TED talk as ...

PRINCETON, New Jersey -- Would you eat a cicada? Some high school students in Princeton, New Jersey are using the Brood X cicada emergence to spread the word about the benefits of eating insects. The ...

C'mon, who doesn't like bugs in a bag? Crunchy little critters that are good and good for you? Panitan Tongsiri is hoping the answer is: no one. The 29-year-old Thai entrepreneur is trying to change ...