Re:Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
by klodolph on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:21AM
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> With insects such as Mealworms that's much easier. They basically eat anything and they turn it almost 1:1 into valuable protein.
I looked up the feed conversion ratio for mealworms, I found values around 5:1. This is comparable to beef. Chickens are much better, somewhere around 1.5:1. Some other insects are better or worse in terms of FCR.
I looked up the feed conversion ratio for mealworms, I found values around 5:1. This is comparable to beef. Chickens are much better, somewhere around 1.5:1. Some other insects are better or worse in terms of FCR.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4689427/