NU FS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Vending Machine, Freeze-Drying, Radiant Energy
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Now they know that they have a group who will consume insect. Instead of smoothie or vending machine, they can provide insect energy bar as a post gym food. Cricket powder is a gateway product, it is an easy way to get it into your food. Cricket powder is now available locally, it has mild taste, we can incorporate in our food as flour, there is also a caution written. Why consume insect product or why not, will it be adopted by consumers, will it increase eventually and so on (in your opinion). Variety of reasons why students at university may be target population: sustainability, open-minded, welcoming, absorb more information, more health conscious. Disadvantages: insects are seen as contaminant, exterminator brought in to clear backyard off insects. How do we get over those barriers: use of bacteriophages as a method to prevent food poisoning: bacteria eaters/bacteriophages can reduce food poisoning. Yersinia hangs on to kitchen utensils for a long time.