Macronutrient composition of the Chicatana ant (Atta mexicana), Edible Insect during the rainy season in Mexico

According to the FAO, by 2050 the world will host 9billion people that will need to be fed; therefore, in order to meet this need, food production should be almost double. In recent years it is been seen that not only land scarcity, climate change, and polluted overfished oceans are serious problems for food production, and expanding the area devoted to farming is not enough fora viable sustainable option. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate what is eaten and what is produced to find new options of underused food to satisfy this demand and meet basic requirements of nutrition.1 On the other hand, it is known that for every 10animal species, 8 are insects, which can be found everywhere, in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and nutritional content; the magnitude of this renewable natural resource should not be underestimated.