Crickets as a Protein Source: An Alternative Future Food for Promoting Nutrition and Food Security
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Increasing the global population trend potentially affects food security due to the raising food demand. The livestock industries are well known for high greenhouse gas emission production that led to climate change and impacts the environment. Therefore, preparing adequate food sources for future demand and enhancing food security by lowering emission production is the necessary plan. Nowadays, there are edible insects, especially crickets that are used to be food ingredients because of their good nutritive value and obtained high biological value of protein. In addition, crickets farming is required less water, feed, and other resources than other animal live stocks. This made cricket farming less production emission. This review article aimed to present information on edible crickets as a food source of protein by demonstrating the nutritive values of different species of crickets, clinical efficacy from current pieces of evidence, and safety aspects of crickets. The information could be beneficial to nutritionists, dietitians, and other professionals in food and health to generate clinical knowledge on edible crickets and develop food products by using edible crickets to be one the alternative food sources of protein in the future.
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