Table 3.

The content of chitin for each species of edible insects.

Species	Chitin [g/100 g]
Giant mealworm larva	6 ± 0.8 a
Common mealworm pupa	12 ± 0.2 b
Common mealworm larvae	13 ± 0.4 b
Field cricket nymph	7 ± 0.7 a

^a,b The different superscripts express belonging to the statistically significantly different groups, p < 0.05.