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Whole-insect roasting

Roasting whole dried crickets or mealworms and applying savoury seasonings (BBQ, paprika, chilli-lime) to produce direct-consumption crunchy snacks.

Where it's used

Insect protein snacks for human consumption
Cricket bars, mealworm snacks, cricket pasta and chips — high-protein (~65%) insect-based snacks positioned on a fraction of the land, water and feed of conventional protein, led by a consolidated European specialist-brand set (Jimini's, Crické, Seek, Sens) and Chapul after several US high-profile failures.
food-alt-protein 6 min