Let’s add some bugs to the menu!

We have some fancy names for certain styles of foods such as charcuterie for a tray of appetizers and étouffée for shrimp stew. Shall we move on to“entomophagy” for a nice selection of edible insects? “Ento” means insects and “phagy” means to eat. Will our diets include bugs in the foreseeable future? Anthony Bourdain, the late TV chef, would eat anything, but how about the rest of us?The European Union (EU) has pushed to normalize eating certain insects in our changing world. The European Food Safety Authority, similar to our Food and Drug Administration (FDA), decided after study that dried mealworms (beetle larvae) are safe for humans to eat. The European Commission approved migratory locusts in dried, frozen or powdered forms, defining these as “new foods, foods from new sources, new substances used in food as well as new ways and technologies for producing foods.” Switzerland approved the sale of grasshoppers, mealworms and crickets in 2017 under its Foodstuffs Act.

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