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Insects as Feed for Farmed Poultry: Are Italian Consumers Ready to Embrace This Innovation?
Article in Insects, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
- The use of edible insects in human food.Journal of the science of food and agriculture · 2026Review
- Sustainable Protein in the Food Chain: A Five-Country Study on Consumer Preferences for Insect-Fed Animal Products.Insects · 2026Article
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- Effects of live black soldier fly and yellow mealworm larvae supplementation on slaughter performance and meat composition of Muscovy ducks.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Nutritional Potential of Edible Insects as Alternative Ingredients in Fish Feed: A Path to Modern Aquaculture.Aquaculture nutrition · 2025Review
- Effects of Dietary Resveratrol and Black Soldier Fly (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Willingness of West African Consumers to Buy Food Produced Using Black Soldier Fly Larvae and Frass.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Unlocking the Potential of Insect-Based Proteins: Sustainable Solutions for Global Food Security and Nutrition.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Intention to Purchase Foods Based on Insects, Arachnids, and Arthropods, Processed by 3D Printing in Panama Consumers.International journal of food science · 2024Article
- Consumers' Preferences for Chicken Fed on Different Processed Animal Proteins: A Best-Worst Analysis in Italy.Nutrients · 2023Article
- The Potential Future of Insects in the European Food System: A Systematic Review Based on the Consumer Point of View.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The future is crawling: Evaluating the potential of insects for food and feed security.Current research in food science · 2023Review
- Consumers' acceptance toward whole and processed mealworms: A cross-country study in Belgium, China, Italy, Mexico, and the US.PloS one · 2023Article
- Exploring the Future of Edible Insects in Europe.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Italian Consumers' Readiness to Adopt Eggs from Insect-Fed Hens.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Edible Insects and Global Food Security.Insects · 2021Article
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Abstract
The inclusion of insects as a protein source in feed production is not only related to technical, economical, and normative restrictions but is also affected by consumer acceptance. In this study, we evaluated consumers' attitudes, intention to purchase and eat, and willingness to pay for meat obtained from a farmed duck fed with insect-based meal or a live insect diet. We conducted a survey among a sample of 565 consumers to test the effects of information about the benefits of using insects as feed on consumers' attitudes towards animal-based products fed with insects. Providing information on the sustainability and nutritional benefits of using insects as feed increased both attitude towards and intention to purchase and eat meat products made from animals fed with insects. In the treatment group, we found a significant reduction from 21.9 to 14.0% in those who wanted to be compensated for buying a duck fed with an insect-based meal and an increase in those willing to pay the same price-from 64.9 to 72.7%. The information treatment significantly increased the intention to eat such products, suggesting that increasing consumers' knowledge might help in reducing the fears and misconceptions around the topic of using insects as a feed source.
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