Do you ever think of eating insect? Beetle? Spider? Cockroach? I think the answer must be No. But how about eating cricket and you can save the world?
This cricket cracker is a product jointly developed by the famous Japanese retails company MUJI and the Department of Bioscience and Bioindustry of Tokushima University in Japan. It looks like the normal cracker, but there is a cricket printed on the package to remind everyone that this is made of bug.
It Tastes Like Shrimp.
In the interview, the employees of the Snacks and Beverage Development Department said that this cricket cracker has the smell of shrimp. Also, the official website mentioned that biologically “shrimp is an insect in the sea, and crickets are land shrimp.”
Why We Need to Eat Crickets
According to the product description, the team made this cracker with cricket powder for the future of the earth.
MUJI also mentioned why crickets was chosen as food. The reason includes that the supply of meat protein in the world is not enough to support population development around 2030, and the protein content of crickets is far higher than common livestock.
Another advantage of eating crickets is that the resources required to feed crickets are very small. Compared with common cattle such as cows, pigs, and chickens, crickets have a very light load on the global environment.
There are many benefits of eating crickets, however, not everyone dare to taste. It can only be said that technology, population, etc. are constantly evolving, and the environment of the earth also needs to be taken into consideration. New possibilities must be developed for sustainable development.
The cricket cracker is currently only avaliable on the MUJI online store in Japan, and the details of selling globally are yet to be disclosed. If there is cricket cracker selling in your region, are you dare to try?
