Bugs… the value add
While whole cricket powders have attracted the most commercial interest to date, bugs could be the source of a variety of added value ingredients in the future, from pearlescent/opalescent colors from the ground carapace, to edible coatings derived from chitosan (which you can make from treating chitin, the exoskeleton, with acids), claimed Dr George Cavender from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. “We’ve barely scratched the surface.”