Cricket flour
Cricket flour, also known as cricket powder (both definition are used by producers), is a substance made from ground-up crickets. One of the first companies to use cricket flour in the western world, in a processed food product, was Chapul,[1] which launched a project on Kickstarter on 12 July 2012, to make a protein bar[2] and followed up with a successful appearance on ABC's Shark Tank, partnering with Mark Cuban.
A US company, All Things Bugs, founded by Dr. Aaron T. Dossey, manufactures and sells high quality cricket powder (under the trade name Griopro.[3][4] One such startup is Exo, which successfully used Kickstarter in to 2013 to fund an initial batch of protein bars made with cricket flour.[5] The bars are now available for sale online.[6] Additionally, other companies such as Cricket Flours LLC are now selling pure cricket flour and flavored mixes such as Peruvian Chocolate and Chocolate Peanut Butter cricket flour as well on-line.[7]
In Thailand there are at least 3 companies producing cricket flour: Thailand Unique, EIF Thailand, Sahakhun Bug Farm.
Among recently launched products integrating cricket powder there are Bitty cookies (US), Live Longer protein bars (New Zealand), Cricket Pasta fusilli (Thailand) and Chirps chips (Six Foods in the US).[8][9]
Entomo Farms (Canada) is one of the largest human-grade cricket-rearing farms in North America.[10]
Integrating cricket powder into food and featuring recipes on blogs is being popularised by companies such as Primal Future (New Zealand) [11]
See also
References
- ^ "Chapul - Home".
- ^ "Chapul - The World's First Cricket Bar".
- ^ All Things Bugs LLC. http://www.allthingsbugs.com/ All Things Bugs LLC.
- ^ Griopro. http://www.cricketpowder.com/ Griopro.
- ^ "Exo: Protein Bars Made from Cricket Flour". Kickstarter.
- ^ "Products". Exo Inc. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
- ^ "Buy Cricket Flour". Cricket Flours LLC. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ^ "Six Foods Chirps Chips". Chirps Chips. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
- ^ "Bitty Foods". bitty. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
- ^ Entomo Farms. http://www.entomofarms.com/ Entomo Farms.
- ^ "Primal Future - Primal Future Recipes".