The adventurer and Sens ambassador Pavel Paloncy tells us about his recent mountain adventure, during which his team managed to conquer an incredible number of 8 European peaks over 4,000 meters in three days, and Sens products were there with him.   What was your goal on this adventure?   I have been pushed lately to favor work over the mountains. So, I simply wanted to return to the mountains, be up in the heights, enjoy climbing, and just spend time in alpine terrain. I also wanted to get back into it as preparation for further, higher, and more challenging expeditions becaus ..read more

We had a chance to interview Josh who has a very interesting take on the vegan diet. He decided to add insects! So naturally, we were curious how such a diet works for him, what insect based meals he eats, and how he came up with the name entovegan! Let’s go straight into the interview. Hi Josh, I have to say I really like how you laid out the framework for Entoveganism on your website. I feel like we have a lot of the same ideas about how to improve the current western diet. Can you briefly sum up what being an Entovegan means to you? It means I’m eating what I believe to be the healthiest, m ..read more

It’s finally here! The Dark Chocolate & Sour Cherry pleasure protein bar is a brand-new addition to our cricket flour product portfolio. Who did we make it for? What nutrition does it bring to the table? Where can you get it? Let’s take a closer look. It’s delicious We selected the finest dark chocolate and the sourest dried cherry to give you the sweetest mouth pleasure you’ll ever experience in a protein bar. You will be eating real fruits, nuts, and cacao in a gingerbread-like experience. It’s made to be tasty first but there’s more to it than meets the tongue. It’s full of protein and ..read more

We talked to one of our customers, Petr, who has both type I. diabetes and coeliac and asked him what life with these diseases is like and how cricket flour fits into his diet. What does he like to eat or breakfast? How does he fuel his sports activities? Read on. Hi Petr, when did you get diagnosed with type I. diabetes? I was diagnosed at 42, I have a subtype of T1D called LADA. The typical T1D is usually diagnosed at a much younger age so it was a big shock to me. At first, I thought I might not have very long to live. My wife was also pregnant at the time, a month away from giving birth so ..read more

Cholesterol is linked to heart disease so eating foods high in cholesterol is unhealthy, right? No, not exactly. Even though crickets do contain cholesterol there’s a difference between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol. Let’s take a closer look to clear up the confusion. Crickets are high in cholesterol The reason we want to talk about cholesterol is that insects contain a respectable amount of it. For example, flour from our cricket farm contains 545,67 mg cholesterol in 100 g. That means if you ate 2 of our protein bars, you’d get roughly the same amount of cholesterol as ..read more

What food would you take if you had to spend 6 days crossing a 250 km long trail in a desert and had to carry everything on your back? Pavel Paloncý, or the Czech Machine as he is known in the ultra-runner community, decided to take cricket flour bars as his main source of fuel. How did he do? Pavel is an accomplished ultra-runner, he is a three-time winner of The Spine Race, a brutal 430 km endurance race through England, where he also holds the course record at 81 hours and 34 minutes. He specializes in extreme races and competes at a very high level, he is truly a machine when it comes to c ..read more

Cricket flour is gaining in popularity as a baking ingredient. We’ve been getting nice pictures and recipes for various delicious treats that you guys made since we added cricket flour from our farm to the store. We love them! Please keep sending them and we will feature the best here on our blog. This following recipe will yield 25 delicious cookies. But these are not just any cookies. There is no white flour so they are gluten free and there’s also plenty of cricket flour so you can be sure these cookies carry a lot more protein than most cookies you’ve had. You can read more about the crick ..read more

It’s cool that you exercise and try to lead a healthy lifestyle outside of work. But if you, like most people, spend the majority of your waking hours at the office you better learn how to stay healthy there too. Here are three actionable tips to improve your office life! Have a “stand up” reminder Sitting for hours makes your cardiovascular system lazy, your ankles, knees and hips weak, and your metabolism slow. It was even compared to smoking in terms of negative health effects (1). The best solution is to break up the daily amount of sitting into smaller segments. How? If you’re an apple pe ..read more

It is well documented that insects are nutritious, filled with quality protein, vitamin B12, iron, calcium, and many other minerals. But the effects of insect-eating on gut health is something that was never explored, until now. A new clinical trial looked at what happens to the gut microbiota of people who start eating insects, and the results are really promising! Did you know that there are about 3x more bacterial cells than human cells in your body? It’s true, most of them reside in your gut and they influence your physiology, metabolism, and gene expression when it comes to immune functio ..read more

We have been getting a lot of questions about the safety and hygiene of cricket farming. It is a novel food so we understand the concerns but as you will see there’s nothing to worry about. Let’s take a closer look at what we do at our farm to ensure our products are safe and nutritious. What happens to cricket poop? One question that is especially common has to do with poop. We can’t process every single cricket the way a pig or a cow would be at a traditional farm to make sure the intestinal contents stay out. That’s why we stop feeding our crickets 24 hours before harvesting to ensure their ..read more