Believe it or not, Aspire Food Group has been raising crickets in brooders, turning them either into a flour, a smoothie, a cracker, or into something else once they have grown from eggs to adults. This is how the future of food revolution will look or taste- like.
Robert Nathan Allen, director of sales at Aspire Food Group, believes that the future food revolution will include turning exotic or crawling animals into a smoothie.
What and how we eat is "changing in ways not seen since the postwar industrial food boom." These changes, according to Houston Chronicle, "range from the rise of dinner-on-demand subscription services that deliver do-it-yourself healthy meals to your doorstep, to the expansion of America's palate to include crickets and other insects."
Allen's goal is to include the United States in the list of countries having some 2 billion people eating insects every day diet. He is considered as a "crickets-as-food evangelist" due to the fact that he promotes them and the nutrition that can be found in these insects, including protein, iron and calcium.
According to Allen, cricket flour, for instance, can be a substitute for all-purpose flour "to boost the nutrition profile of baked goods." The cricket flour, moreover, can be "used as a thickening agent in sauces and soups or added to a spice blend when roasting vegetables."
There are several restaurants and food establishments around Houston that offer similar dishes. For example, pan-sautéed grasshoppers ("chapulines") are included in the menu at Hugo's while Cuchara, serves mini grasshoppers from Oaxaca.
It is therefore not a surprise that the food delivery services have become one of the fastest-growing industries. "People say these companies are doing so well because people aren't cooking anymore," Ali Bouzari, co-founder of the California Bay-area food innovation and development company Pilot R&D, said.
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