Insects as Sustainable Food Ingredients Production, Processing and Food Applications

Insects as Sustainable Food Ingredients: Production, Processing and Food Applications describes how insects can be mass produced and incorporated into our food supply at an industrial and cost-effective scale, providing valuable guidance on how to build the insect-based agriculture and the food and biomaterial industry. Editor Aaron Dossey, a pioneer in the processing of insects for human consumption, brings together a team of international experts who effectively summarize the current state-of-the-art, providing helpful recommendations on which readers can build companies, products, and research programs.

Researchers, entrepreneurs, farmers, policymakers, and anyone interested in insect mass production and the industrial use of insects will benefit from the content in this comprehensive reference. The book contains all the information a basic practitioner in the field needs, making this a useful resource for those writing a grant, a research or review article, a press article, or news clip, or for those deciding how to enter the world of insect based food ingredients.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Edible Insects

Chapter 2: Insects as Food: History, Culture, and Modern Use around the World

Chapter 3: Nutrient Content and Health Benefits of Insects

Chapter 4: Edible Insects Farming: Efficiency and Impact on Family Livelihood, Food Security, and Environment Compared With Livestock and Crops

Chapter 5: Modern Insect-Based Food Industry: Current Status, Insect Processing Technology, and Recommendations Moving Forward

Chapter 6: Insect Mass Production Technologies

Chapter 7: Food Safety and Regulatory Concerns

Chapter 8: Ensuring Food Safety in Insect Based Foods: Mitigating Microbiological and Other Foodborne Hazards

Chapter 9: Insects and Their Connection to Food Allergy

Chapter 10: Brief Summary of Insect Usage as an Industrial Animal Feed/Feed Ingredient

University of Florida and as a Research Entomologist with the USDA. His research involves developing

technologies derived from insects and other invertebrates, with award winning research publications

in the fields of entomology and chemistry.

Dr. Dossey has research experience in the areas of: Molecular Biology, Food Science, Organic

Chemistry, Entomology, Insect rearing and husbandry, insect farming, Natural Products Chemistry,

natural product isolation and identification, Chemical Ecology, field biology, setting up a laboratory,

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. He has won over $750,000 in major research grants from the Bill and Melinda GatesFoundation, from the USDA developing insect farming and processing technologies as well as Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) for malnourished children. He also participated in the 2012 UN FAO expert consultation on the potential for

insects to contribute to human food security. Since, he has invented and patented technology for

production of insect-based food ingredient products, and his company is already the world’s largest

in production and selling these products.

Dr. Dossey is a frequent speaker at food science, nutrition, sustainability, and insect related

conferences and is sought out for his unique expertise on this emerging industry. You can read more about Dr. Dossey's biography at: www.cricketpowder.com/about-us/
Dr. Morales’ main expertise is in mass production of arthropods, insect nutritional ecology and the

development of rearing methods and mechanization of rearing processes for beneficial arthropods.

• Details the current state and future direction of insects as a sustainable source of protein, food, feed, medicine, and other useful biomaterials
• Provides valuable guidance that is useful to anyone interested in utilizing insects as food ingredients
• Presents insects as an alternative protein/nutrient source that is ideal for food companies, nutritionists, entomologists, food entrepreneurs, and athletes, etc.
• Summarizes the current state-of-the-art, providing helpful recommendations on building companies, products, and research programs
• Ideal reference for researchers, entrepreneurs, farmers, policymakers, and anyone interested in insect mass production and the industrial use of insects
• Outlines the challenges and opportunities within this emerging industry