Table 3. Comparative efficiencies of crickets and selected livestock.

	A. domesticus		Carp 1	Chicken	Pork 1	Beef 1
	PF	FW1
Feed conversion (kg dry feed / kg live weight)	1.3	1.8	1.5	1.7 2 –2.3 1	5.9	12.7
Feed conversion (kg dry feed / kg edible weight)	1.7 3	2.3 3	2.3	2.4 4 –4.2 1	10.7	31.7
Protein content (% of edible weight)	16	16	18	20 1	14	15
Protein conversion efficiency (%)	35	23	30	33 4 –25 1	13	5

Feed conversion ratios, protein content, and protein conversion efficiency for A. domesticus in the Poultry Feed-PF and Food Waste 1-FW1 treatments as well as for carp, chicken, pork and beef.

1. Smil [42].

2. Feddes et al. [43].

3. Using 80% edible portion, as in Nakagaki et al. [8].

4. Using 70% dressing percentage (harvestable portion) [44] instead of 55% used by Smil [42] and the feed conversion reported by Feddes et al. [43].