Are you brave enough to make sweet treats using a high-protein flour that comes from a common insect? On its website cricketflours.com, the Cricket Flours company, of Portland, Oregon, offers recipes ...

Want to be on the cutting edge of nutritious food trends? Hop on board with insect-eating. A long-held tradition in most of the world, it’s worming its way into the West, via the eco-friendly crowd.

Crickets have almost as much protein as ground beef -- they are quicker to raise than cattle (taking just six weeks, and require much less land and water) - and thus a possible answer to mankind's ...

It’s been five years since the United Nations issued a report encouraging people to eat more bugs. Insects are not only a great source of many nutrients, including omega-3s, they’re also much more ...

Squeamish eaters better buck up. Meat is becoming more costly to farm, both financially and environmentally, so protein seekers will soon be forced to source their nutrition elsewhere. For people ...

From the cookbook, a spiced, sticky-sweet plantain cake made with Seek’s gluten-free cricket flour. The recipe was contributed by De Maria chef Adriana Urbina. Photo: Ghazalle Badiozamani Over the ...

Rapper Nasir "Nas" bin Olu Dara Jones listens during a featured session at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Sunday, March 9, 2014. The SXSW conferences and ...