Insects as Sustainable Food Ingredients : Production, Processing and Food Applications
edited by Dossy, Aaron T. ; Morales-Ramos, Juan A. ; Rojas, M. Guadalupe
Insects as Sustainable Food Ingredients: Production, Processing and Food Applications describes how insects can be mass produced and incorporated into our food supply at an industrial and cost-effective scale, providing valuable guidance on how to build the insect-based agriculture and the food and biomaterial industry. Editor Aaron Dossey, a pioneer in the processing of insects for human consumption, brings together a team of international experts who effectively summarize the current state-of-the-art, providing helpful recommendations on which readers can build companies, products, and research programs.
Researchers, entrepreneurs, farmers, policymakers, and anyone interested in insect mass production and the industrial use of insects will benefit from the content in this comprehensive reference. The book contains all the information a basic practitioner in the field needs, making this a useful resource for those writing a grant, a research or review article, a press article, or news clip, or for those deciding how to enter the world of insect based food ingredients.
402 pp : ill
Publication Details
- Published: 2016
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISBN-10: 0128028564
- ISBN-13: 978-0128028568
- Dewey Decimal: 641.696
- ECHO Library: 641.696 DOS