Edible Insects in the Food Sector Methods, Current Applications and Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sogari, Giovanni (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mora, Cristina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Menozzi, Davide (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Entomology.; Food-Biotechnology.; Agricultural economics.; Microbiology.; Nutrition .; Food Science.; Agricultural Economics.; Food Microbiology.; Nutrition.

This book explores one of the most discussed and investigated novel foods in recent years: edible insects. The increasing demand for alternative protein sources worldwide had led the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to promote the potential of using insects both for feed...

Table of Contents:

• Insects as food: risk assessment and their future perspective in Europe
• Insects as food in the Global North - the evolution of the entomophagy movement
• How to measure consumers acceptance towards edible insects? - A scoping review about methodological approaches
• Bugs on the menu - Drivers and barriers of consumer acceptance of insects as food
• Sensory and consumer perspectives on edible insects
• Quality and consumer perspectives on edible insects
• Quality and consumer acceptance of products from insect-fed animals
• Potential allergenic risk of entomophagy.-Insects as food: the legal Frameword.