ReviewInsects2025
Harnessing Chitin from Edible Insects for Livestock Nutrition.
Review in Insects, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Effect of the Duration of Feeding a Diet Containing Cuban Cricket (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Effect of Dietary Inclusion of House Cricket (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Nutrient Digestibility, Chitin Recovery and Antioxidant Capacity ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Effects of defatted black soldier fly larvae meal as a replacement for soybean meal on growth performance, health, intestinal morphology and cecal microbiota of broiler chickens.Tropical animal health and production · 2026Article
- 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
- Influence of dietary mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) on nutrient digestibility, performance, and blood constituents in growing lambs.Tropical animal health and production · 2026Article
- The effect of two different defatted insect meals in Japanese quail diets on the performance, ileal morphometry, apparent ileal digestibility and blood parameters.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Microbial drivers of Black Soldier Fly biowaste valorization: from microbiome functions to scalable insect-microbe systems.AIMS microbiology · 2026Review
- LiveFrontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Effects of Mealworm-Based Synbiotics on Productive Performance, Egg Quality, Blood Metabolites, and Gut Health in Laying Japanese Quails.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Impact of Dietary Shrimp Waste on Physical Properties, Chemical Composition, Amino Acid Profile, and Antioxidant Levels of Breast Meat.Veterinary sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
In recent years, edible insects have gained significant attention as a sustainable and innovative source of feed for animal nutrition due to their excellent content of protein, fats, vitamins, and chitin. Among these, chitin is the least studied nutritional component, despite its promising properties and potential benefits. Chitin, an important polysaccharide found in the exoskeleton of arthropods, including insects, presents both negative and positive aspects in animal nutrition. As is known, the main drawback is its digestibility, which varies among livestock animal species depending on their ability to produce chitinase. However, chitin also exhibits benefits, including the enhancement of gut microbiota and immune response, together with the reduction in cholesterol and pathogen levels in animals. This review aims to summarise the current knowledge on the effects of chitin derived from edible insects on animal nutrition by analysing both the negative aspects and benefits for the different farmed animals for which insect feeding is legally permitted (fish, poultry, and pigs), while proposing future research directions.
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