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The Effect of Strain and Rearing Medium on the Chemical Composition, Fatty Acid Profile and Carotenoid Content in Silkworm (
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- Potential uses of silkworm pupae (Frontiers in insect science · 2024Pooled it
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- Fatty Acid Profile and Thermal Behavior of Fat-Rich Edible Insect Oils Compared to Commonly Consumed Animal and Plant Oils.Food science of animal resources · 2024Article
- Potential of Full-Fat Silkworm-Based Diets for Laying Quails: Performance and Egg Physical Quality.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Nutritional Composition ofInsects · 2022Review
- Insect meal as a feed ingredient for poultry.Animal bioscience · 2022Article
- Italian Consumers' Readiness to Adopt Eggs from Insect-Fed Hens.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
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- Mechanical Processing ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Effect of Thermal Processing on Physico-Chemical and Antioxidant Properties in Mulberry Silkworm (Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
The overexploitation of fishmeal and soy for the feedstuff industry has provided an opportunity to employ insects as an unconventional and more environmental friendly protein source. The evaluation of the nutritive properties of different insect species has consequently become a priority. The present study compares the pupal nutritive composition of two silkworm strains (White Cocoon Polyhybrid and Golden Yellow Cocoon Nistari) fed on two different rearing media (fresh mulberry leaves and a commercial artificial diet). Our results provide evidence that the composition of the feeding substrate strongly influences the fat and protein content of silkworm pupae. The two tested strains had higher fat and lower protein contents when fed with silkworm natural food (mulberry leaves) with respect to the commercial artificial diet. The analysis also showed that the n3/n6 ratio was affected almost exclusively by the feed substrate factor. On the contrary, the carotenoid content in pupae was specifically determined by the strain. The study identifies the interesting opportunity offered by silkworm pupae, which are usually a waste product of the silk-reeling process, to be used as alternative animal protein sources in a fully-closed circular production.
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