{"id":1005,"date":"2014-07-17T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2023-02-12T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T18:04:09","slug":"crickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/07\/17\/crickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Crickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally found a way to buy insects in enough quantity to satisfy my <a href=\"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/05\/eating-insects\/\">desire for nutrition from insects<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/worldento.com\/\">World Ento<\/a>, which sells dried crickets and cricket flour at a price per gram of protein comparable to seafood. (H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/powersmoothie.org\/power-smoothie-recipes\/\">Holden Karnofsky<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicvaluerecovery.com\/studies\/studies_nutrient_content_of_insects.htm\">Organic Value Recovery Solutions<\/a>, crickets have impressive amounts of the nutrients I&#8217;ve found the hardest to get good amounts of. Here are examples of how much I&#8217;d get if I got my 2000 calories a day from crickets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>B12: 20 times the RDA (more than 3 times that of eggs)<\/li>\n<li>Folate: 5 times the RDA (3 times that of eggs)<\/li>\n<li>Zinc: 9 times the RDA (5 times that of eggs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(using data for eggs from pastured chickens).<\/p>\n<p>They have plenty of fiber and good amounts of most minerals and B vitamins.<\/p>\n<p>The cricket flour tastes ok in brownies, but I&#8217;ll want some other recipe for regular use.<\/p>\n<p>Update 2015-01-05: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandunique.com\">ThailandUnique<\/a> has a better selection of insects. My favorite so far is the Big Cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally found a way to buy insects in enough quantity to satisfy my desire for nutrition from insects: World Ento, which sells dried crickets and cricket flour at a price per gram of protein comparable to seafood. (H\/T Holden Karnofsky.) According to Organic Value Recovery Solutions, crickets have impressive amounts of the nutrients I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-diet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s80O1l-crickets","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}