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. 2020 Apr 2;17(7):2427. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17072427

Table 3.

Distribution of answers to survey questions and p-value for χ2 tests.

Questions Yes No I Don’t Know p-Value
S 1 P 2 I 3
1. Have you heard about edible insects before? 88.1 9.7 2.2 0.9199 0.5985 0.2594
2. Have you heard of eating insects in other cultures before? 94.1 4.6 1.3 0.9773 0.1984 0.3268
3. Have you heard about restaurants serving edible insects? 54.2 39.9 5.9 0.5791 0.0932 0.3198
4. Do you know that edible insects are the source of proteins? 67.2 18.9 13.9 0.6916 0.5811 0.5226
5. Have you eaten edible insects before? 7.3 90.7 2.0 0.2063 0.1367 0.0046*
6. Is insect eating disgusting for you? 45.2 36.6 18.3 0.0000 * 0.0090 * 0.0181 *
7. Does the idea of eating insects make you feel sick? 38.5 49.6 11.9 0.0000 * 0.4356 0.0144 *
8. Would you accept edible insects in your diet? 17.8 59.0 23.1 0.0000 * 0.0633 0.0037 *
9. Would you accept bread from insect flour in your diet? 31.7 47.4 20.9 0.0000 * 0.1222 0.0018 *
10. Would you accept biscuit from insect flour in your diet? 29.7 48.2 22.0 0.0002 * 0.1108 0.0033 *
11. Would you accept insects in animal feeding:
poultry;
pork;
beef;
fish?

62.6
60.8
61.7
63.0

23.3
23.6
22.9
22.2

14.1
15.6
15.4
14.8

0.0025 *
0.0011 *
0.0005 *
0.0257 *

0.2170
0.0187 *
0.0022 *
0.0130 *

0,7578
0.6816
0.6376
0.6807
12. Would you like to taste whole insects served sauté? 16.1 68.9 15.0 0.0001 * 0.0182 * 0.0098 *
13. Would you like to try whole insects with the addition of:
spices,
covered with chocolate?

35,0
24.7

54.2
61.7

10.8
13.7

0.0009 *
0.0002 *

0.0348 *
0.1521

0.0151 *
0.0131 *
14. Would you like to try insects in an invisible form - flour added to:
biscuit,
bread,
burger,
paté?

38.8
42.5
41.0
29.5

47.1
43.6
45.6
57.0

14.1
13.9
13.4
13.4

0.0098 *
0.0133 *
0.0082 *
0.0227 *

0.3378
0.2331
0.4921
0.9055

0.0579
0.0435 *
0.0118 *
0.0092 *
15. Would you use edible insects if you knew that:
insects are easy to prepare,
do not require long heat treatment,
they can be bought near the place of residence,
they are easily available in stores and supermarkets?

20.5
19.4

24.0

25.3

55.7
58.4

54.8

52.4

23.8
22.2

21.1

22.2

0.0000 *
0.0000 *

0.0000 *

0.0000 *

0.0675
0.3166

0.1030

0.1098

0.0399 *
0.0139 *

0.0453 *

0.0209 *
16. Should insects be included in Western diets to solve problems with:
nutrition,
food security,
environmental sustainability,
reduced food wastage,
scarcity of agricultural land,
animal welfare?

34.1
22.0
29.5
37.7
35.0
33.5

27.8
33.9
31.9
24.7
25.6
27.8

38.1
44.1
38.5
37.7
39.4
38.8

0.2853
0.0096 *
0.0012 *
0.0002 *
0.0044 *
0.0834

0.7264
0.7076
0.8329
0.8405
0.5944
0.6098

0.7958
0.4862
0.2074
0.1397
0.1397
0.2093

S 1, sex; P 2, place of residence; I 3, monthly income; p-values, where values marked with (*) differ significantly.