Insect Food Conference in Singapore

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Insect-eating advocates face a culinary challenge: taste

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Singapore recently approved 16 types of bugs, including crickets, silkworms, grasshoppers and honey bees, as food.

Some two billion people, about a quarter of the world’s population, already eat insects as part of their everyday diet, according to the United Nations .

In Japan grasshoppers, silkworms, and wasps were traditionally eaten in land-locked areas where meat and fish were scarce.

Today crickets and silkworms are commonly sold as snacks at night markets in Thailand .

Insects may well become the superfoods of the future, as coveted as quinoa and berries.

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