Easy for them to say. They don’t eat American beef!  Researchers in England and China say eating bugs could help feed the world’s growing population as well as steak!

The researchers wrote, "Commonly consumed inspect species could be excellent sources of bioavailable iron and could provide the platform for an alternative strategy for increased mineral intake in the diet of humans."

The Huffington post reports the bug munching scientists analyzed the mineral content of grasshoppers, crickets, mealworms and buffalo worms along with a sample of sirloin beef. When compared to the steak, crickets had higher iron solubility, a characteristic that allows a mineral to be taken up and used by the body. Grasshoppers, crickets and mealworms also had higher concentrations of chemically available calcium, cooper, zinc and magnesium, when compared to the sirloin.

If that’s true, we are going to have to make the spacing on the grill a lot closer together!

 

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