date:Jul 19, 2019
A new study has found that grasshoppers and silkworms have a similar antioxidant capacity as fresh orange juice.
The first-of-its-kind study, published in Frontiers in Nutrition, found that crickets have 75% the antioxidant power of fresh orange juice, and silkworm fat twice that of olive oil.
At least 2 billion people a quarter of the worlds population regularly eat insects, says senior study author Prof. Mauro Serafini from the University of Teramo in Italy, quoted on the Frontiers blog. T