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ReviewJournal of food science and technology2023

Edible insects as emerging food products-processing and product development perspective.

U Gnana Moorthy Eswaran, Sangeetha Karunanithi, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Srutee Rout, Prem Prakash Srivastav

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Review in Journal of food science and technology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

U Gnana Moorthy EswaranDepartment of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 721302 West Bengal India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4470-5569
Sangeetha KarunanithiDepartment of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 721302 West Bengal India.
Rakesh Kumar GuptaDepartment of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 721302 West Bengal India.
Srutee RoutDepartment of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 721302 West Bengal India.
Prem Prakash SrivastavDepartment of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 721302 West Bengal India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Edible insects (EI) are also becoming as a part of the diet due to their nutritional value and health benefits in many regions of the world. These EI are inexhaustible sources accessible by garnering from the wild with high feed conversion efficiency. Appreciating the budding of EI in justifiable food production, enlightening food security and biodiversity conversion, is promising a sufficient supply of the insect resource for future food to the world. These insects are processed to develop new products, improve organoleptic and nutritional parameters as well as the extension of shelf life. In this review, we discuss the edible insect characteristics, the potential application of EI in food industry, processing, pretreatments, drying, extraction of edible compounds like protein, lipid and chitin various food products formulation, safety regulation. Availability of broad nutritional spectrum of EI includes protein, mono and poly unsaturaturated fatty acids, amino acids, vitamins, amino aids and minerals has been used as an ingredient in development of various forms of food products such as flours in the form of whole insect powder, protein isolate, canned products, extruded products, hard candies, spreads, liquor infusion, cookies and other products.

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ChitinEdible insectLipidPretreatmentProteinSafety regulation

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PMID37273559
PMCPMC10232397

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