Did you get a chance to check out our latest post on Instagram this week? If not, make sure to subscribe and follow along on our Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest accounts too! If you have a recipe you would like us to try, or have a question, let us know and we’d love to connect with you. The post Are you subscribed? Check out our Cricket Flours accounts! first appeared on Cricket Flours ..read more

What is Methylcobalamin? What is Methylcobalamin? If you read our article on What is Cyanocobalamin you may be thinking methylcobalamin sounds similar–and it is! So what is methylcobalamin? In short, it is another form of the vitamin B12. Methylcobalamin exists in nature, so it is not synthetic and it is actually identical to one of the forms actively used in the body. Methylcobalamin is considered a natural form of B12, and while cyanocobalamin is still effective and safe, some research such as this 2017 Integrated Medicine study suggests methylcobalamin has a higher bioavailability. This ..read more

Edible Insect Cricket Brownies Now Available at Pita Pit Cricket Brownies now available at Pita Pit for a limited time! We are excited to announce that our very own Cricket Brownies are available at the Pita Pit located in Omaha, Nebraska at the corner of 120th and L Street.  Since we first launched our company, we have always loved crafting new collaborations and offering people a new way to try edible insects so they can eat bugs for the first time!  And this was the perfect opportunity we just had to jump at! Fresh Baked Cricket Brownies in Omaha, Nebraska   A few weeks bac ..read more

Last week we sent out our Cricket Newsletter and we received sooooo many amazing responses! We asked for some feedback and insights into how you are using our edible insects, what did you like, what you would like to see, and what did you want to see more of.  So if you were one of those that responded we wanted to say thank you for taking the time and it was great to hear from each of you and we are going to be working on delivering on those ideas you were interested in. One of the pieces of feedback that we received was that we hadn’t updated our protein comparison chart to tie in alt ..read more

Sal de gusano What is worm salt and how do you make it? Sal de gusano & Worm Salt Sal de Gusano or worm salt, is a traditional condiment that can be found in Mexico and often used for salsas, dips, cocktails, tequilas or even on fresh fruit (click here to find some featured cocktail drinks to try with your worm salt or Cricket Salt). However, even if you have heard of sal de gusano not a lot of people have actually had the opportunity to try it or even know how worm salt is actually made. That’s where we come in! We wanted to put together something for people looking for more informatio ..read more

Wondering “what is bug frass?” You are not alone!  We put together this full article to answer: What is insect frass or bug frass, How do you use it, and How do you make it? Insect frass coming to a garden near you What is Insect Frass? A fun question we get at a lot of our live events or from people that go on insect farm tours is, what is insect frass? What do you do with all of the waste from the insects like crickets and mealworms?  These are great questions and they bring up another cool benefit of raising edible insects for human consumption, which is that you can use the w ..read more

Research Focused on Edible Insects and Antioxidants New research from Frontiers in Nutrition came out that looked at the antioxidant capacity in edible insects compared that of other antioxidant-rich food sources including orange juice and olive oil.  Antioxidants, as seen from research conducted in the lab, are the chemical molecules that help protect cells in the body by reducing and removing cell-damaging free radicals. The exciting results from this study found that crickets, grasshoppers, and silkworms all contained 5X the antioxidant capacity of orange juice.   Billion Pe ..read more

Have you tried eating a mealworm? This is definitely a conversation starter and not usually something brought up on a first date, but it is an important one to have. At least at Cricket Flours we think so… Currently throughout the United States, the edible insect market is still growing and niche when compared to the rest of the world. In fact, if someone has tried a eating a bug before it is most often a cricket or was in a protein bar or something similar. However there are thousands of options…actually around 2,000 edible insect options at the current count. Edible insects such as mealwo ..read more

What is Chitin? Chitin is the fibrous material that makes up the exoskeleton of arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. CHITIN AND EDIBLE INSECTS Edible insects all use the fibrous material chitin to form the structure of their exoskeletons. Chitin can be found in the exoskeleton of insects, the shells of crustaceans, and even in the wing scales of a butterfly! There are different modified versions of chitin that are utilized throughout the insect world that make it possible to have the strong exoskeleton of a beetle, for example, and also be used to create the flexible bodies seen in ..read more