The University of Delaware offers a hands-on course that teaches students how to include bugs in their diet.
The class, called “Insects as Food,” shows students how to whip up some buggy items.
“The University of Delaware is now serving up a course where students learn to cook and eat insects as a sustainable food source. The program promotes bugs as the perfect protein-packed solution for a growing global population. Students describe the experience as surprisingly creamy, with a frozen-pea-like taste—though the lingering crunch of insect skin is harder to forget,” Shadow of Ezra wrote.
“Will you eat the bugs?” the post added.
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WPVI reports:
In the Worrilow Hall test kitchen, sago worm chili was being prepared.
The hands-on course covers the benefits of incorporating bugs into the food system, which Prof. Michael Crossley says can help meet global food demands.
Other items on the menu this semester include spicy giant water bug pasta salad and black ant lemon scones.
“Black ants produce formic acid, which has a zesty flavor to it, so it’s almost like putting in lemon rind,” Crossley said.
He went on to say that students typically enjoy these unique creations.
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The World Economic Forum has feverishly pushed including insects into the world’s food supply to “reduce climate change.”
From the WEF:
The world’s population will reach 9.7 billion people by 2050. This means that despite only 4% of arable land remaining available on the surface of our planet an additional 2 billion more humans will have to be fed.
In order to address this impending crisis, world experts and leaders will meet this autumn at the UN Food Summit and then the COP26. Often overlooked in these discussions is the potential role insects can play in helping meet this challenge.
Insects contribute to the biological foundation of our terrestrial ecosystem. They bring organic matter to the earth by decomposing waste, act as pollinators for the reproduction and dispersal of plants and flowers, and are also a source of food for a multitude of animal species, from birds to amphibians to humans.
The concept of insect farming is not new and, currently, 1-1.2 trillion insects are raised on farms annually for food and animal feed. The practice has, however, remained mostly manual – until now. Thanks to new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), we are at a turning point and finally able to industrialize the breeding of insects in a contained environment. Insect breeding is a data centric agro-industry with a lot of commonalities with precision agriculture.
https://wltreport.com/2025/04/14/university-offers-course-cooking-eating-ze-bugs/
