You might not have known, but a lot of people think you should be eating insects. Their arguments are legion: Edible bugs are better for the environment and can help slow climate change, they can ...

Chef Joseph Yoon began cooking cicadas after experimenting with insects for an art project. He shared his experience with Morning Edition. The cicadas are coming! And so are some new flavor profiles.

The UK’s Food Standards Agency has said it will allow products containing edible insects to remain on the market while they undergo the Novel Foods authorisation process to assess safety. The ...

Chef Joseph Yoon began cooking cicadas after experimenting with insects for an art project. He shared his experience with Morning Edition. The cicadas are coming! And so are some new flavor profiles.

“There’s so much innovation behind edible insects and what it offers in sustainable food security,” Chef Joseph Yoon recently told me. Yoon, an Edible Insect Ambassador, is a world-renowned chef and ...

There is a low risk to the public from edible insects sold in the United Kingdom, according to a Food Standards Agency (FSA) assessment. The risk assessment looked at allergens, microbial, and heavy ...

Despite the ubiquity of bug consumption in some parts of the world, the tools and techniques to raise and process insects as human food on an industrial scale are still evolving, and there are still ...

Entomophagy has long been recognised as an underutilised strategy to address food security issues. Eating insects is one part ...

The benefits of edible insects as an emerging food source must be weighed against potential food safety issues, according to the United Nations’ FAO. While insects have been part of the diets of many ...