Insects flour in food products

patnor1011

There are few articles about new rule which allow adding insect flour to food products in the EU. I am all for freedom of choice and if someone feels like they want to indulge in this new trend I am not in a mood for experimenting.

I suppose that majority of people here will have hard time to be happy with this brave new way to feed people so most of manufacturers will go to some length not to advertise their use of such ingredient, some will perhaps even try to disguise it in some way.

I would be interested to see what you find out mainly which brands and products are going to include this so it will help me to steer clear from them.

Despite this rather pathetic reasoning about how such stuff is safe and widely used mostly in some third world countries I do not want to eat that, not even by mistake.

https://www.thejournal.ie/is-cricket-powder-available-in-the-eu-and-is-it-safe-5995369-Feb2023/

EmmetSpiceland

Article is 2 years old, dude. We’re already swimming in ground up insects. The left, and the greens, have had it mandated to be included in everything from flour to cycle lanes.

Grayson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058397310/insects-flour-in-food-products

Did you not read the article? It all has to be labeled. And warnings have to be included for people that may be allergic. So you'll se it along with warnings for nuts, gluten etc…..

crusd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058397310/insects-flour-in-food-products

You have not even read the link that you posted in your effort to be permanently outraged

and any food containing insects must be properly labelled

artanevilla

Imagine being a grown adult and crying about clearly labeled ingredients being put into food. Snowflake generation.

Dial Hard

I've bad news for you, dude, you've likely been eating insects for years, one of the most common food colourings out there is made from cochineal. If you've ever eaten anything red, purple or orange, you've probably eaten carmine/E120, which is essentially ground cochineal carapace.

User567363

If your out cycling or jogging youd eat the odd insect

Trigger Happy

Must try harder OP.

LambshankRedemption

The OP should have a warning label "May contain traces of nut".

New Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123191180#Comment_123191180

Exactly. Or, try and seal a bag of flour in a sealed kilner jar* and place in a warm place, like the hotpress, for a few weeks. See what happens.

Spoiler Warning

(*So the moths don't escape)

patnor1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123191165#Comment_123191165

As I said, there were few articles and rule was relaxed recently. I posted this one as it was "fact check" browbeating people in submission talking how fantastic they are.

Yep, properly labelled like maybe they create some insect E number for example.

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123195440#Comment_123195440

You literally have a computer in your pocket, finding out what any ingredient is, is simple. Also as pointed out, certain food colorings originate from insects...

For the record, I've eaten foods that used cricket flour and it tastes the exact same. Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable isn't a reason to prevent it, there's no safety issues and the likes of cricket flour goes back millennia. You've not given any coherent reason on why it shouldn't be allowed which says a lot. 🤣

kneemos

Apparently we all consume about two kilos of insects per year. That's quite a pile given what they weigh.

Also nobody is a true vegetarian.

Speedsie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123202590#Comment_123202590

That's why strict Jains wear face masks...to prevent accidental inhalation of insects. They also sweep the ground in front of them to prevent crushing any bugs.

Edit...typo

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123200727#Comment_123200727

Many people are squeamish about eating insects but isn't seafood, as in crustaceans just insects of the sea? Isn't a lobster or a crab basically a big beetle that walks on the seabed?

Mmmm lobster...

Speedsie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123203492#Comment_123203492

And woodlice are basically shrimp.....

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123203762#Comment_123203762

My mother was in Africa many years ago. She had a friend who was working for one of the big accounting companies and one night he put on this lavish banquet with all the best local produce. It was all served up by the guys man servant who was a local man. At the end of the night there was a lot of food left over and she asked would the servant bring the leftovers home. The friend said "hell no. He thinks this food tastes like sh*t. There's rain forecast for tonight so he'll be out with a bucket underneath the street lights, collecting grubs which he thinks are delicious".

Ubbquittious

Did anyone try the insect (mealworm) patties they were selling in Lidl a while back? I didnt see them the last day I was in, might not have been a hit

Quantum Erasure

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123202590#Comment_123202590

mr#mr