One Canadian mom is touting the benefits of consuming bugs. She's even raising her baby on a diet that includes crickets. "I'm a food writer and will try anything at least once, including eating bugs, ...

She’s not averse to grabbing some grub. Most people would balk at finding a bug in their food; however, one South African woman likes adorning her dishes with an array of creepy crawlies straight out ...

Vietnamese edible insect startup Cricket One – which processes crickets raised by local cassava farmers in abandoned shipping containers that have been kitted out as intensive breeding units - has ...

Entosense, an edible insect company in Lewiston, began farming its own crickets over the past winter, with the goal of eventually replacing its outsourced cricket products with locally raised products ...

While media and investor interest in ‘alternative proteins’ is focused on plant-based meat, cell-cultured meat, and proteins produced via microbes, demand for cricket protein is still growing, claims ...

Have you been spotting more crickets than usual in your house? How about stink bugs?Praying mantises and katydids are also out in force. A local expert says the bug population is booming right ...

In Southeast Asia and elsewhere, insects have long been an integral part of the human diet, and nowadays scorpions can be ordered on skewers, while ants fill spring rolls and silkworms star in ...

Growing up in Mexico City, it was common for Jose Avila to snack on the edible bugs at the markets around town with his grandma and mom after school. So, the James Beard-nominated chef didn’t think it ...

BANGKOK — Bugs in a gourmet kitchen are usually something to be squashed or swatted. But at Le Cordon Bleu, the esteemed French cooking school, chefs and food scientists spent a week simmering, ...

Three boys sat rapt in their theater seats beaming at a selection of snacks. The reason for the excitement wasn’t butter popcorn or Red Vines. Orrin Noon, 10, Arlo Davis, 11 and Axel Boily, 10, had ...

Why eat bugs? Insects are "surprising superfoods," efficient protein factories, loaded with essential fatty acids, micronutrients, and vitamins.