Insects can be turned into meat-like flavors, helping provide a more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional meat options, scientists have discovered.
Mealworms, the larval form of the yellow mealworm beetle, have been cooked with sugar by researchers who found that the result is a meat-like flavoring that could one day be used on convenience food as a source of protein.
I am not, under any circumstances, going along with this bullshit.
While mealworms have until now mostly been used as snacks for pets or as bait while fishing, they have potential as a food source for humans to help get the recognizable flavors of meat without the harmful impacts upon the climate, as well as direct air and water pollution, of raising beef, pork and other animal-based foods.
If you tell a lie often enough, people will start to believe it. Well, I don’t believe it and I’m not eating mealworms or any other insect.
The environmental problems connected with traditional meat production are made up. Here’s a clue, we have been farming for over ten thousand years, if farming was going to cause imminent climate catastrophe why didn’t it happen nine thousand nine hundred years ago? In any case, if we were going to eat bugs instead they would have to be farmed on a massive industrial scale which would have its own environmental issues. These fools never think things through do they.
The plant based chicken dippers advertised on tv has the main ingredient as rehydrate wheat. A bit of research and it appears they take wheat, soak it, separate the gluten from it. They then cook the gluten which produces a meat like substance. This is then flavoured to represent chicken. Now apparently this method of producing a meat like substance has been happening in China for centuries, not a substitute for meat but goes alongside it on the menu.
At work we thought it was soya, but that has a cheese like texture rather than this chewy texture.
Now anyone who is gluten intolerant must avoid it like the plague.
Its highly processed and is basically flour. Not very appealing. I’m avoiding it.
Have you ever noticed how the reduced chiller shelf in the supermarket is always chock full of “meat free” products?
Yes!
Not sure if this applies to mealworms, on the subject of eating insects the following blogpost is worth a read:
https://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/2022/08/17/chitin/
And another perspective which comes to the same conclusion:
http://eatonrapidsjoe.blogspot.com/2022/08/insect-protein.html
There are a lot of people in this world who have religious objections to eating insects (apart from certain locusts as if you’ve got locusts then you ain’t got much else). I don’t think that those promoting the eat bugs bollocks have taken that into consideration.
There is a sure fire way that you can turn mealworms into meat and that is to feed them to chickens as an extra protein supplement and then eventually eat the chickens. As someone who buys mealworms regularly for my poultry I fail to see any cost benefit in eating mealworms as they are extremely expensive £10 per kilo as opposed to £0.45 per kilo for mixed grain.
Greenies and Veggies can be converted to substitute certain animal meats. I believe they taste like chicken but have not tried one yet. Maybe next year when the food stocks get low.
The only arthropods I eat are shrimps, prawns, crevettes and lobsters. These lunatics can show mealworms. We put them the bird food.