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Article 2024 · 8 atıf

Study of the effect of feeding Tenebrio molitor larvae during their rearing on their growth, nutritional profile, value and safety of the produced flour

Papastavropoulou, Konstantina, Koupa, Anastasia, Kritikou, Evangelia, Kostakis, Marios, Dervisoglou, Sofia, Roussos, Andreas, Perdikis, Dionysios, Thomaidis, Nikolaos S., Oz, Emel, Oz, Fatih, Proestos, Charalampos, Wu, Haizhou

Özet

Science and food industry must strive to ensure and improve edible insect's benefits, and especially their safety and nutritional value. This study investigated how various food substrates used in the rearing of Tenebrio molitor larvae influence their growth, the safety of the larvae, and the nutritional quality of the resulting flour. The main findings indicate that all samples showed significant differences in their nutritional profile, larval characteristics, and heavy metal content. Regarding the content of protein, fat and fiber it ranges from 44.1 to 51.8 %, 28.6-34.8 % and 10.5-14.9 %, respectively. These results suggest that insect diet is a very crucial parameter that can affect all that factors and must be taken into account, especially when they are intended as raw materials to be used for food production.

Anahtar Kelimeler
Tenebrio molitor larvae growth Nutritional profile Amino acid profile Fatty acid profile Minerals Heavy metals EDIBLE INSECTS FATTY-ACIDS COLEOPTERA PERFORMANCE FOOD
WoS Kategorileri
Chemistry, Applied Food Science & Technology
Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Amaçları
Künye
Dergi
FOOD CHEMISTRY-X
Yıl
2024
Cilt
24
ISSN
2590-1575
DOI
10.1016/j.fochx.2024.101838
WoS UID
WOS:001324809700001
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