EU citizen also allowed to sink teeth into grasshopper



After mealworms, residents of the European Union will soon be able to put grasshoppers on the table. The European Commission approves the European grasshopper for food. A Dutch company had requested this.

The grasshopper may soon be sold ground, but also frozen or dried as a whole. Then the legs and wings have to come off, so as not to ask too much of the digestion. The insect can be eaten as a snack, but can also serve as an ingredient for other foods. The grasshopper is rich in important proteins, among other things, and can serve well as a substitute for meat.

Insects are already widely eaten elsewhere in the world, but in Europe, until recently, only a single species was sometimes fed to animals. That changed with the yellow mealworm, which has been on the menu in the EU for a few months now. The house cricket will probably also be approved soon.

The Netherlands also believes that insects must end up on our plates more often in the coming years. They exert a much less heavy burden on the environment and climate than, for example, beef cattle.

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