ReviewAnimal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui)2022
Available for millions of years but discovered through the last decade: Insects as a source of nutrients and energy in animal diets.
Review in Animal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Cutting-edge exploration of insect utilization in ruminant nutrition-feature and future: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Pooled it
- Evaluation of the jejunal microbiota and microbial markers in laying hens fed diets with black soldier fly larval fat as a partial or total replacement for soybean oil.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Insects on the Plate: Nutritional Benefits, Health Impacts, and Market Dynamics.Current protein & peptide science · 2026Review
- Insect fat influences broiler performance, meat quality, and the cecal microbiota similarly to plant oils rather than animal fats.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- From Bugs to Benefits: Edible Insects as Exceptional Protein Sources.Current protein & peptide science · 2025Review
- Inclusion of Tenebrio molitor larvae meal in the diet of barbary partridge (Alectoris barbara) improves caecal bacterial diversity and composition.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Effects of Black Soldier Fly Larvae Oil on Growth Performance, Blood Biochemical Parameters, Carcass Quality, and Metabolomics Profile of Breast Muscle of Thai Native Chickens.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Insect live larvae as a new nutritional model in duck: effects on gut health.Animal microbiome · 2024Article
- Black Soldier Fly Larva Fat in Broiler Chicken Diets Affects Breast Meat Quality.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Dietary supplementation with full-fat Hermetia illucens larvae and multi-probiotics, as a substitute for antibiotics, improves the growth performance, gut health, and antioxidative capacity of weaned pigs.BMC veterinary research · 2023Article
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Abstract
The aim of this review is to present and discuss the most recent literature about the processing of insect biomass and its impact on nutritive value, further implementation of meals and fats derived from invertebrates to livestock (poultry and swine), aquaculture (salmonids), and companion animal diets and their impact on growth performance, metabolic response, and gastrointestinal microbiota shifts. Additionally, the most important barriers to obtaining unified products in terms of their nutritive value are considered, i.e., to define insects' nutrient requirements, including various technological groups and further biomass processing (slaughtering, drying, and storage). Due to the current limitation in the insect production process consisting of the lack of infrastructure, there is stress on the relatively small amount of insect products added to the animal diets as a functional feed additive. Currently, only in the case of pet nutrition may insects be considered a full replacement for commonly used environmentally harmful and allergenic products. Simultaneously, the least information has been published on this topic. Thus, more scientific data are needed, particularly when the pet food branch and insect-based diets are rapidly growing.
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