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. 2022 May 14;101:129–152. doi: 10.1016/bs.afnr.2022.04.002

Table 2.

List of some traditional cooking and commercial processing methods reported in literature for edible insects.

Insect species Cooking or processing method used References
Alphitobius diaperinus (beetle)
Ruspolia differens (grasshopper)
Tenebrio molitor (yellow mealworm)
Archea domesticus (house cricket)
Boiling (submerged in boiling water), blanching, steaming, sautéed Wynants et al. (2018), Grabowski and Klein (2017), Fombong, Van Der Borght, and Vanden Broeck (2017), Purschke, Brüggen, Scheibelberger, and Jäger (2018), Kamau et al. (2018), Ssepuuya, Aringo, Mukisa, and Nakimbugwe (2016), and Nyangena et al. (2020)
Ruspolia nitidula (grasshopper)
Rhynchophorus phoenicis (palm weevil)
Ruspolia differens (longhorn grasshopper)
Tenebrio molitor (yellow mealworm)
Polyrhachis vicina Roger (Black ant)
Nauphoeta cinerea (speckled cockroach)
Drying (sun/solar, oven, freeze-drying, pan-fried, fluidized bed, microwave-assisted drying) Tiencheu et al. (2013), Fombong et al. (2017), Purschke et al. (2018), Alves, Sanjinez-Argandoña, Linzmeier, Cardoso, and Macedo (2016), Bußler et al. (2016), Wynants et al. (2018), Vandeweyer, Lenaerts, Callens, and Van Campenhout (2017), Kröncke, Böschen, Woyzichovski, Demtröder, and Benning (2018), de Oliveira, da Silva Lucas, Cadaval, and Mellado (2017), and Hernández-Álvarez, Mondor, Piña-Domínguez, Sánchez-Velázquez, and Melgar Lalanne (2021)
Acheta domesticus (house cricket)
Schistocerca gregaria (desert locust)
Spodoptera littoralis (leaf worm),
Gryllodes sigillatus (tropical banded cricket)
Tenebrio molitor (yellow mealworm)
Enzymatic proteolysis; sonication, fermentation, ultrasound-, pasteurized-liquid, and microwave-assisted extractions, extrusion Hall et al. (2017), Zhao, Vázquez-Gutiérrez, Johansson, Landberg, and Langton (2016), Mishyna, Martinez, Chen, and Benjamin (2019), Zielińska, Karaś, and Baraniak (2018), Mendoza-Salazar et al. (2021), Carcea (2020), Otero, Gutierrez-Docio, Del Hierro, Reglero, and Martin (2020), Del Hierro, Gutiérrez-Docio, Otero, Reglero, and Martin (2020)