Abstract
Bug Delicacies: Insects as a Powerful Food Resource for a Troubled World
Highlights
The subject of research of cultural entomology is the influence of insects and other arthropods in a whole range of human activities [1] including the practice of entomophagy which is the use of insects as food [2,3]
Western civilization has traditionally been prejudiced against entomophagy which is strange considering that other arthropods (e.g crustaceans) are widely consumed [15,16] this trend is slowly reversing as the edition of cook-books offering insect recipes increases [10,1719]
Insects are an important source of vitamins and minerals. In order that this kind of studies be performed, it is first of utmost relevance a knowledge of the folk use of insects as a food source. This is one of the subjects of ethnoentomology [27] and it should start by the careful cataloguing of the insect species consumed and in the past by the folk people of a given region
Summary
The subject of research of cultural entomology is the influence of insects and other arthropods in a whole range of human activities [1] including the practice of entomophagy which is the use of insects as food [2,3]. Insects of very diverse orders have been used as food by humans and their kin since very ancient times [4].
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