Meinung des Tages: Ist die Einführung von Insekten in Lebensmitteln sinnvoll?
Was anderswo bereits als völlig normal angesehen wird, ist in der westlichen Hemisphäre oft mit Ekel und Abweisung verbunden: Insekten als Nahrungsmittel.
Mit der Zulassung von Insektenmehl in Lebensmitteln ab Januar 2023 geht die Europäische Union nicht nur einen großen Schritt in Richtung Minimierung von Treibhausgasemissionen, sondern führt auch eine leicht zugängliche und im Überschuss bestehende Protein-, Vitamin- und Ballaststoffquelle ein.
Dabei wird das Insektenmehl als gesundheitlich unbedenklich eingestuft, muss jedoch mit einem Allergiehinweis ausgestattet werden. Natürlich ist auch eine Kennzeichnung auf Lebensmitteln, die den neuartigen Zusatzstoff enthalten, verpflichtend, sodass Verbraucher selbst entscheiden können, ob sie es zu sich nehmen möchten.
In der Schweiz sind Insekten bereits seit 2017 als Lebensmittel zugelassen.
Sind Insekten in Lebensmitteln die Antwort auf steigende Preise für tierische Proteine und Fette und sind sie eine Chance auf eine umweltschonende Nahrungsquelle? Und ist der EU-Markt bereit für diese Neuerung?
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The introduction of insects in food can be useful for several reasons. Here are some of the main arguments:
However, it is important to note that there are also some potential challenges in the introduction of insects in food, such as hygienic concerns and the fact that not all consumers will be friends with this kind of food. It would therefore be important to ensure that insect breeding and processing takes place under hygienic conditions and that appropriate regulation with regard to the use of insects in food is in force.
We can also use ChatGPT ourselves.
Because of their high protein content, it is already sensible. I’ve been eating somewhere else for years. I don’t have to eat a flourworm or a yeast spread throughout, but processed as a flour additive for certain products, I can imagine. Most of them would not even notice it, as the ingredients lists on the packaging are very small and unclear. In addition, names are chosen (probably Latin), which hardly anyone understands anyway.
The mouse in the McDonalds Brötchen was also just a single appearance; By now, they have a much better meal.
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Which foods already contain insects?
Even if the newly approved products are assigned to the “Novel Foods” (new foods), the idea is not new. Insects have been used for a long time in food production – the most famous example is the dye E 120, the “red carmine”.
It consists of boiled and crushed scarlet leaves, from which a red dye is obtained, which is often used in the food, but also in the cosmetics industry.
In these products, according to the comparison portal “Codecheck” the dye is used inter alia:
The rubber lacquered glass, or its resin-like excretions, are also used as “schel lacquer” in the food industry. In the ingredients list, the fabric is often listed as E 904. As a coating, shellac is used in candy, chocolate, nuts, coffee beans and food supplements.
In these products, Schellack is used inter alia:
Especially E 120 is controversial. On the one hand, the dye can cause allergic reactions. In addition, the dye is also used in vegan and vegetarian products, for example to dye analogues and sausages. Many vegans and vegetarians criticize this because the products are no longer purely plantable by using carmine or shellac.
Henry11
You should eat the food that seems normal with us.
There will always be people who want to eat special offers for their needs.
You can do that. In China, for example, dogs are considered delicacies.
Let the special gourmets eat worms and insects.
Congratulations and good appetite, for dizziness!
There is probably the wish of Father of thought. I can’t even see a big step. The proportion of insects in food will remain in the lowest percentage range. I find such fleas and hiding behind climate talk really bad.
Well, there’s a lot to beautified. How many nutrients will actually return to insects in the finished products, one has to study concrete and realistic individual cases.
Maybe. They’d be cheap in mass production. How environmentally friendly production is really, you have to see.
I’m skeptical, but I guess the industry will try it for cost reasons and the environmental cover is helping to increase acceptance.
This is the central problem: How well digestible and tolerated insect products are really, has not yet been studied intensively. It is quite obvious that insects will also cause problems. Here it is necessary to proceed very carefully and be closely observed.
Many other substitutes, which have been praised as miracle agents, do not really prevail.
It should not be forgotten that food is not only food, but also must and must be enjoyment.
Nuja, in some, for example, Asian countries (I know that from Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam) insects are a very normal part of the diet or a “usual” snack. And there is plenty of experience that there are no special problems regarding your concerns to be expected.
Well, I doubt very much that those countries have so sophisticated health systems and life expectancy that one can compare it with the German standard.
I’m pretty sure about these great health systems, too!
“Grey is any theory!”
If you can leave 70 months for permissions from wind turbines, the introduction of cakalaks on menus does not seem urgent to me!
Our ancestors have also nourished themselves by bugs, worms and terror, does not seem to have worked very successfully.
I don’t have to compare health systems.
What problems are you facing?
Food allergies – usually occur very quickly, and have encountered a rather individual problem (and at least in my numerous conversations and contacts in the above-mentioned countries not intact.
Life expectancy is lower than in the case of us (hygiene, working conditions, malnutrition). There is a low-cost protein supplier.
We also do not know very long that many foods that are always more readily available do not necessarily promote health, increase life expectancy.
Have fun growing exotic specialities!
What I actually want to say, on the one hand, we deliberately destroy insects, also the useful bees, in order to squeeze out yields from ever larger monocultures, on the other hand, we want to cultivate possier locusts, barbecues and co. industrially for consumption.
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What does the health system have to do with the enjoyment of foods that are still uncommon with us, but in some of the world’s regions are “normal” for a long time?
And, for example, in some areas in Cambodia, fried bird spiders are offered as small delicacies.
Just because “we” don’t know something from our own experience (still) ….
We will have to get used to the fact that insects will be part of our food. For environmental and other reasons, this also seems sensible.
If they are long ago, everyone knows that, for example, fresh vegetables, nuts, flour, …, processed, When flying once in a while, we have long consumed their predecessor stages, eggs, larvae, ….
Yes, it makes sense. Many people don’t care what they eat, it doesn’t matter if there’s insect meat, donkey meat or cheap bark in the lasagna. The taste comes mainly from artificial taste. And insect meat is more environmentally friendly to produce.
Donkey meat is not so bad. Just like horse. Original salami is partly made of ass meat. At least the Hungarian. I’ve eaten.
Yeah, don’t have to be bad. But the ass meat that lands in the lasagna is usually of low quality.
That may be. I can’t judge.
In principle, I have nothing to do with the approval of insects as food, but I would like a clear labelling. Who already looks at the ingredients list and realizes that a Latin name is insects?
I will certainly not consciously consume food with insects, but since I do not look at any ingredients lists, this could happen quite accidentally, especially if manufacturers will use insects as cheap ingredients in the future.
do you like to call the reason?
Because I find these Viechers disgusting.
… well, the more they can (be eaten)
SCNR
Since the world is overpopulated, this is certainly a good way to provide all people.
Sounds very useful from my point of view. When the viechers are ground to flour, the light eclectic factor has also taken place for me.
It is certainly better for the environment, but I don’t know if it tastes the consumer.
No, it won’t get through. In civilised Europe insects are not part of everyday food.
It will be a non-stopping process.
The biomass that makes up insects is gigantic. It will not work in the long term and would be stupid.
Huhu,
see in it really no problem who should find this disgusting time to see what else can come in for years.
About Anna
Covid also came from bats.
Whether it’s sensible or not. I don’t want insects in my food, not as flour.
And “sinful” only the greenlings scream again. It’s simply disgusting.
I find okay that it is possible.
But I find that has to be declared, obviously and not with any beautified name.
Besides, I don’t understand why the vegan should be insect to eat.
I believe this strange debate, whether vegan insects are allowed to eat is just a foggy candle from a known direction. of course, the mass breeding and killing of insects is not vegan
It is not meaningful, it does not have the same nutrients. It would be useful to buy unprocessed foods and cook yourself. Free of all additives are meat, milk, eggs, fruit, vegetables, cereals and nuts.
meat production is not possible without additives in breeding
Antibiotics + other medicines, germs, also manure and methane are bad
Free of all additives are meat, milk, eggs, fruit, vegetables, cereals and nuts.
Plants usually contain pesticides. The only drawback.
https://www.br.de/messages/amp/germany-welt/sprayed-aepfel-exclusive-data analysis-for-pesticidal use,TTqvZWU
I have been eating dried flourworms regularly for several years. I don’t care.
I think this is a mistake. Insects are actually only important for certain proteins in animal food, which can hardly be produced otherwise. I see, however, that today, without the detour of animals, we can gain food for humans from plants. The various fast food snacks can now be produced superbly, which taste not only as good as the model but even better.
In the long term, we have to stop growing and eating animals for luxury needs. It just doesn’t work ecologically anymore
I hope there will soon be a natural-identical milk that allows all the possibilities of cheese preparation one to one and also natural-identical egg. dDann we actually only need the cows to puff and pluck the chickens away to the snail.
Whoever likes this has always done it.
I can only support you. Only when I read the question, the water in my mouth collapsed.
Delicious Maden and fried locusts a culinary poem!!!😋😋
It’s ridiculous, it’s normal. Best all FFP3 masks on and stuff the body with insects. In addition, the hymn of the GDR sing and let everyone call simultaneously:” Vegans are glues and glues are gooses” as a battle call.
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Wonders me very much, I thought the trend was more towards veganism. That is the opposite.
Absolutely! It’s totally normal in many countries. All kinds of insects, also scorpions, spiders etc. In the NL the bugs have long since. Had le there. Year a Bugs Bat
It is here, for example, bee honey with leach excretion (Meltau), forgotten, Chitin also. There’s no one saying anything 🙂
As you said, healthy, ecologically sensible, proteins. Raised ecle and everything new is here first disgusting, anti, spinning etc. Until the first dare to find it well, the next have increased their coolness factor. Was also stupid at Veggis, then trend and today totally normal
I think it’s gonna be similar. Is declared everywhere, so no problem
Once again, a huge barrel is opened, for such little 🙂 try and decide yourself, dare you. Does everything people stand up for, discuss, etc? Still not right again.
it is a wickedness to claim that the disgust has raised people.
If it was sarcastic contrary to expectations, it was really good:-) It’s like spiders. In among others BRA are eaten ( jungle) In asiat. Countries even living sea cucumbers etc. Babies here find spiders interesting, want to touch them. Parents. Suck the away etc. Same with other getiers like Maden. Who’s thinking about eating crickets. In Africa, of course, this must also be tw.
Lev 11,21From these small animals with wings and four feet you can eat those who have jump legs to bounce on the ground.
Levy 11,22From them you can eat the various kinds of walking dirt, the Solam, the Hargol and the Hagab hay terror.
Levy 11,23All other small animals with wings and four feet, however, be abhorrent to you.
Lev 11,24On these animals you defile yourselves; every one that touches Aas becomes unclean until evening.
Just until night? That’s all right. Then you can consume insects without thinking in the afternoon… 🤦🏼 ♀️
Hebrew is a visual language, “until the evening” in the sense, all the other day(“because night is death”, the end of the world, which is nothing, is the night) until the morning of the new day begins.
This is true for bodybuilders. In the evening proteins.
Fried giant cocks should taste like fried shrimps, which for me are something like underwater insects because of the tank.
I love it!
Those who spray so many insecticides should also have to eat them!
what has the one (insecticides) with the other (bred(!) Do insects for nutrition)?
You’re right! They are cultivated on tons of thrown food.
Can you do who wants to eat this?
For me personally this is under my level, I will not eat voluntarily either.
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What do you mean, the “liveau”?
as it stands
Bäh ne. I’d never eat anything again if there’s only one insect inside.
But I think you will. The insects are ground small and, for example, mixed in proportion to the flour. In every bread that you eat or eat. It could be in there. Tastefully it will probably not even make a big difference.
Except you know the exact ingredients and the meaning of it.
Also believe that most producers will jump on this train and also partially process insects.
But I don’t have a bock to eat and I’ll try to avoid it. But if you go out to eat, it probably happens quickly
I will read every ingredient in the future. The insect stuff I want
Did you know that on 100g chocolate up to 7 insect parts are legal
Exactly.
I don’t eat chocolate. No, I didn’t know
Applies also to other beings