By Barbara Soderlin
Omaha World-Herald 

Lincoln food company incorporates crickets into products

 

February 19, 2017



LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Most food companies hope to keep bugs out of their products.

A Nebraska business is trying to figure out just how many insects it can put in.

Crickets, ground to a powder, are a key ingredient in new pasta and rice products being developed by Bugeater Foods, a startup working from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus, the Omaha World-Herald (http://bit.ly/2lovrHo ) reported.

The goal is to get as much buggy nutrition into the pasta as possible while still making a product that looks and tastes good and cooks properly.

The better it tastes, the better the chance of get...



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