Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Farming yellow Mealworms as human food? Mealworm Burgers?

  And mealworms for people to eat are still mostly a novelty market.

https://entomologytoday.org/2019/03/07/maximizing-mealworms-research-aims-to-improve-rearing-methods/ 


 Yummy?

I think I used them as fish bait...

Pretty sure.

Figuring out how to raise a better mealworm on an industrial scale—not just for anglers but also, on a larger scale, as animal feed and even human food—is the subject of a research project, covering eight years, described in a new study published today in the open-access Journal of Insect Science.

After eight years, mealworms produced in the study were three-quarters larger than the stock from which they originated. Already a $55-million market, the industry banks on mealworms—larvae of darkling beetles—as a potential protein source for animal feed and, beyond that, for humans in an ever-hungry world.

After eight years, mealworms produced in the study were three-quarters larger than the stock from which they originated. Already a $55-million market, the industry banks on mealworms—larvae of darkling beetles—as a potential protein source for animal feed and, beyond that, for humans in an ever-hungry world.

 Sounds like my mushroom forest farm! Might be worth trying to grow mealworms as a nice supplement to shrooms.

worldwide, 2 billion people regularly eat insects of one type or another. Mealworms have many features that could make them stand out on the menu. Research suggests they are healthier than beef, chicken, and pork. Moreover, they are an environmentally sound product. Farming mealworms takes up much less space and uses less water than livestock and produces a much smaller amount of greenhouse gasses.

 Also I'm guessing a good source of B12 vitamin!!

So how do I do it?

Technically it would not be livestock ( I don't have enough acres for livestock) and I would not have to worry about noise or the coyotes eating them!!

Of course the birds might try eat them.

https://www.thehappychickencoop.com/make-your-own-mealworm-farm/

 ok next is mealworm recipes!!

Will Yellow Mealworm Become a Source of Safe Proteins for Europe? 

 In view of climate change and the limited availability of food resources, edible insects offer a highly nutritional alternative for feed and food production [1,4,5]. The kingdom Insecta is one of the largest taxonomic classes containing more than 1 million of known [6] but underexploited species [7].

 Optimal growth is achieved when mealworm diets are abundant in yeasts (5–10%), carbohydrates (80–85%) and B-complex vitamins [35].

 exactly!!

I suppose just fry them up!

Or boil them down?

Better yet:

RAW.

Like in Papua New Guinea!

I've eaten raw earth worms....

But I don't want to compete with the Robins, and Veery, etc.

Mealworm larvae are able to synthesise fat even if they are fed low-fat diets.

Yummy Fat!!

Mealworm larvae contain mostly unsaturated fatty acids that deliver health benefits for humans.

 blanched mealworms marinated in red wine and soy sauce can influence microbial load. They demonstrated that marination can extend the shelf life of blanched mealworms for at least 7 days.

mouth-watering recipe!

insects, crickets and mealworms in different form (baked, boiled, crushed, flavoured with a pinch of vanilla or paprika, or dunked in chocolate). The respondents had the greatest preference for crispy mealworms with chocolate and paprika and for naturally baked mealworms. A similar study was conducted by Caparros Megido et al. [220] who investigated consumer attitudes towards insect-based burgers. The taste of mealworm burgers was rated between that of fully meat and fully vegetable burgers.

 oh yeah - no more fast food burgers...

Slow Mealworm Burgers!

$15 for 500 meal worms - in the mail from Minnesota

Wow - this could get started real easily.

 Giant mealworms are simply common mealworms that have been treated with an insect growth hormone to discourage them from morphing into beetles, thus they grow significantly larger. Some will morph into beetles, however they are sterile.

 Oops.

Dang. Now what?

 so people have bred them but it's kind of difficult

 OK here is a Pet Supply shop that sells for breeding.

https://www.exoticnutrition.com/Departments/Mealworms/Live-Mealworms.aspx

 


So now I would have a sustainable source of B12 and fat - as long as I can grow wheat also. I have grown wheat grass before. So should be able to grow wheat as well....

https://www.exoticnutrition.com/Products/Mealworm-Breeder-Kit__96693.aspx

links to youtube vids of course.

He says it is simple as long as it is warm.... I don't know. Keeping it warm can be very difficult.

 https://www.rainbowmealworms.net/

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