ReviewNPJ science of food2025
Potential health benefits of insect bioactive metabolites and consumer attitudes towards edible insects.
Review in NPJ science of food, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07456319 (Sustainable Insect-based Protein Supplement in the Elderly), which is not on this map. Cited by 2 papers.
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Sustainable Insect-based Protein Supplement in the Elderly: a Pilot Study
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Review
- Ethnographic mapping of edible insects in Tanzania: cultural knowledge, biodiversity, and food system implications.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
Particular attention has been paid to the nutritional potential of edible insects as well as the health benefits associated with their bioactive compounds. This paper focused on an in-depth review compiling the most recent information on health benefits of insect bioactive metabolites as well as their purification and identification, in addition to consumer attitudes towards edible insects. It was found that, insect bioactive metabolites, including marcocarpal, grandinol, trolline, pancratistatin, narciclasin, ungeremin, cantharidin, cordycepin, roseoflavin, lecithin, reblastatin, chitin, chitosan and desmosterol deemed to have biological activities, such as tumor suppression, anticancer, antihypertensive, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, immunomodulator, neuroprotective, glycemic and lipid regulation, blood pressure reduction, regulation of intestinal bacterial flora and cardiovascular protection among others. Furthermore, proper sample preparation and extraction is the first step in the purification of bioactive metabolites from edible insects. After concentration, bioactive metabolites are purified using chromatographic and separation techniques including High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Gas Chromatography (GC), Thin-Layer Chromatography (TLC), Size-Exclusion Chromatography (SEC). Finally, their nutritional potential, health benefits, environmentally friendly, great taste, traditions, taboo, safety concerns, unpleasant past experiences, allergies, and unnaturalness are among the main factors influencing attitudes towards insect consumption.
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