ArticlePloS one2020
Self-selection of food ingredients and agricultural by-products by the house cricket, Acheta domesticus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae): A holistic approach to develop optimized diets.
Article in PloS one, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effect of Supplementing a Cricket Diet with Cooked Green Beans, a Discarded Agro-Industrial Material, on Performance ofInsects · 2026Article
- Growth Performances and Nutritional Values ofFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The insects as food and feed industry needs integrative solutions.Current research in insect science · 2026Review
- Influence of Extrusion Cooking Parameters on Antioxidant Activity and Physical Properties of Potato-Based Snack Pellets Enriched with Cricket Powder.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Article
- Growth, development, and life history of a mass-reared edible insect, Gryllodes sigillatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae).Journal of economic entomology · 2025Article
- A High-Quality Reference Genome and Comparative Genomics of the Widely Farmed Banded Cricket (Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- 3D printing approaches to simulate natural diets for insects with implications for domestication and mass-rearing.Frontiers in insect science · 2025Review
- Nutritional Potential of Edible Insects as Alternative Ingredients in Fish Feed: A Path to Modern Aquaculture.Aquaculture nutrition · 2025Review
- Applying nutritional ecology to optimize diets of crickets raised for food and feed.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- The Biotechnological Potential of Crickets as a Sustainable Protein Source for Fishmeal Replacement in Aquafeed.Biotech (Basel (Switzerland)) · 2024Review
- Effect of Feed on the Growth Performance, Nutrition Content and Cost of Raising the Field Cricket (Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Analysis of Fatty Acid Composition and Volatile Profile of Powder from Edible Crickets (Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- ImprovingFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Balancing the Growth Performance and Nutritional Value of Edible Farm-Raised Sago Palm Weevil (Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Effects of Temperature and Density on House Cricket Survival and Growth and on the Prevalence of Acheta Domesticus Densovirus.Insects · 2023Article
- Nutritional Characteristics of New Generation Extruded Snack Pellets with Edible Cricket Flour Processed at Various Extrusion Conditions.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Nutritional and reproductive status affect amino acid appetite in house cricketsFrontiers in insect science · 2023Article
- Self-Selection of Feeding Substrates byInsects · 2022Article
- Differential Proteomics Analysis Unraveled Mechanisms ofInsects · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The house cricket, Acheta domesticus L. (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) is one of the most important species of industrialized insects in the United States. Within the past five years the market of cricket powder as a food ingredient has been growing with increasing consumer interest on more sustainable sources of food. However, high labor costs of cricket production and high prices of cricket feed formulations result in cricket powder market prices much higher than other protein-rich food ingredients, making cricket powder only competitive within the novelty food market. In this study new diets formulated using by-products were developed using dietary self-selection followed by regression analysis. Crickets selected among seven different combinations of ingredients. Consumption ratios of food ingredients and by-products were used to determine macro and micro-nutrient intake. Regression analysis was used to determine the individual nutrient intake effect on cricket biomass production. Intake of vitamin C, sterol, manganese, and vitamins B1 and B5 had the most significant impact on live biomass production. Four diets were formulated based on this information and compared with a reference (Patton's 13) and a commercial diet. Although, crickets reared on Patton's diet 13 produced the most dry-weight biomass and developed the fastest, diet 4 (consisting of 92% by-products) generated the most profit (with a cost of $0.39 USD per kg) after an economic analysis that did not include the commercial formulation. Dry-weight biomass production was not significantly different among the four new diets and the commercial diet. This study demonstrated the value of dietary self-selection studies in developing oligidic insect diets and in studies of insect nutrition. This is the first such study involving farmed edible crickets and agricultural by-products. Four new cricket diet formulations contain between 62 and 92% agricultural by-products are included.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.