Food
Over 1000 species of insects are, or have been used as food somewhere in the world. Entomophagy is common in central and southern Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America. Termites, crickets, grasshoppers, locusts, beetles, ants, bee brood, and moth larvae are examples of insects that are used as food sources. Insects are high in protein, energy, and a number of minerals and vitamins and can form up to 5-10% of the annual animal protein consumption of certain indigenous groups . Many insects are said to have a nutty flavour, along with a high nutritional content.
Read more about this topic: Insect Biodiversity
Famous quotes containing the word food:
“Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise. Without having any chief or officer or ruler, it prepares its food in summer, and gathers its sustenance in harvest.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 6:6-8.
“Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.”
—Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936)
“The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)