Arthropods: Prospect of Household Food Security
Food security is a “situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preference for an active and healthy life”. With a growing world population and increasingly demanding...
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| Formato: | Capítulo de libro |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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IntechOpen
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/83303 |
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| Sumario: | Food security is a “situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preference for an active and healthy life”. With a growing world population and increasingly demanding consumers, the production of sufficient protein from livestock, poultry, and fish represents a serious challenge for the future and prompts the need for other sources of nutrition to be explored. Approximately more than 1,900 arthropod species are edible. This requires the development of cost-effective, automated mass-rearing facilities that provide a reliable, stable, and safe product for consumption. This chapter discusses arthropods as food, arthropods as animal feed, nutritional composition, the secondary metabolites of edible insects and potential medicinal substances, development and utilization of edible insect’s resources, insect farming, impact of insect quality on consumers’ preference and acceptability (insect processing and product quality, processing and marketing, and consumer acceptance), food safety and legislation, as well as the way forward. |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-80355-612-3 |
| DOI: | 10.5772/intechopen.106752 |