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Insects flour in food products

  • 20-02-2025 12:47PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,297 ✭✭✭


    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/



Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,707 ✭✭✭✭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.

    EmmetSpiceland: Oft imitated but never bettered.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,690 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    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…..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭crusd


    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



  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,511 ✭✭✭✭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.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭User567363


    If your out cycling or jogging youd eat the odd insect



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,166 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    Must try harder OP.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,628 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


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



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,870 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    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.

    (*So the moths don't escape)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,297 ✭✭✭patnor1011


    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.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,104 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    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. 🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,696 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,628 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    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...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,628 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    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".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure




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