Future of Food Exploring Edible Insects- An Alternative Approach: A Review

Abstract

The burden of human population is influences availability and quality of food, therefore edible insect may be an alternative source for food. Almost all insects are rich in their nutritional content and have the potential to be served as food for animals and humans. It is provide important necessary nutrition required for the people, while its nutritional content may vary from species to species and genus to genus. Many numbers of insect are recognized as edible that belong to genus Ocalea, order Coleoptera. Apart from direct consumption, edible insects have a huge impact in the food processing industry. These insects are extremely rich in their nutritional value and can help to resolve the world’s hunger crisis and other global deficits. At present day, most of the edible insects are collected from the wild area, even though in-house and these insects provide sustainable product. Till date, there is total of 1,900 edible insects are reported from worldwide. This review is summarizing on the different types of edible insects availability, nutritional composition and production strategies.