ReviewInsects2025
Harnessing Insects as Novel Food Ingredients: Nutritional, Functional, and Processing Perspectives.
Review in Insects, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- House Cricket (Insects · 2026Review
- Effects of Edible Insect Enrichment of Meat-Based and Meat Analogue Products on the Nutritional Composition, Techno-Functional Properties, and Acceptability to Consumers: A Systematic Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Modern Trends in Alternative Proteins and Processing Technologies for Sustainable Food Systems with Antioxidant Implications.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Advances in Alternative Protein Design: Nutritional Constraints, Sensory Limits, and Computational Solutions.Plant foods for human nutrition (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026Review
- Sustainable nutrition systems with alternative proteins for low-impact food future.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
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7 authors.
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Abstract
The rising demand for sustainable protein is driving interest in insects as a raw material for advanced food ingredients. This review collates and critically analyses over 300 studies on the conversion of crickets, mealworms, black soldier flies, and other farmed species into powders, protein isolates, oils, and chitosan-rich fibers with targeted techno-functional roles. This survey maps how thermal pre-treatments, blanch-dry-mill routes, enzymatic hydrolysis, and isoelectric solubilization-precipitation preserve or enhance the water- and oil-holding capacity, emulsification, foaming, and gelation, while also mitigating off-flavors, allergenicity, and microbial risks. A meta-analysis shows insect flours can absorb up to 3.2 g of water g
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