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:
“I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food, and from much food of any kind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)