Discarded silkworm pupae offer high-nutritional-value livestock feed, containing essential proteins, lipids, and omega-3 fatty acids, says CFTRI chief.

You may not know this, but most likely, you stink. Don’t feel bad about it. I probably stink, too. You see, we’re meat eaters, and according to a recent study, the world’s vegans — or vegansexuals, ...

Reading Malcolm Gay’s column about canned silkworm pupae this week, I had to grimace: When people ask me what the worst thing I’ve ever eaten was, that’s always at the top of my list.I tried silkworm ...

Traditional animal farming has fulfilled human nutritional requirements for protein, but insects may serve as an alternative for direct human consumption in the future. Researchers are working to lay ...

Scientists in Taiwan have developed cat food developed from silkworm pupae - Copyright AFP Punit PARANJPE Scientists in Taiwan have developed cat food developed from ...

Chinese scientists have developed a method to manually spin silk from silkworms that can make it 70 percent tougher compared to the silk spun by spiders, according to South China Morning Post. This ...

Food shouldn’t be scary. When I started writing this column eight months ago, I looked at it as a way to share food and learn about other cultures, even if the food might be different from what most ...

Eating insects goes against every fiber of my Americanized culinary being. Yet, there I found myself buttering up a black, cast-iron skillet preparing to fry up pupae of silkworm moth and other little ...

As the human population grows to a predicted 10 billion by 2050 and overall land mass remains constant, traditional animal farming may become a less viable method for food production. Animal farming ...