{"id":1705,"date":"2024-08-14T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2024-08-07T11:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T15:04:05","slug":"expanding-our-concept-of-edible-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/expanding-our-concept-of-edible-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding Our Concept of Edible Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore has approved 16 species of insects for human consumption. Among them are honeybees, mealworms, grasshoppers and crickets, and restaurants are devising recipes for their menus.\u00a0 The United Nations\u2019 Food and Agriculture Organization promotes insects as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/edible-insects\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0alternative protein sources<\/a>, and notes that farming them is much better for the environment than raising cattle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Locusts in your noodles? Singapore approves 16 insect species as food<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/07\/10\/locusts-in-your-noodles-singapore-approves-16-insect-species-as-food.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/07\/10\/locusts-in-your-noodles-singapore-approves-16-insect-species-as-food.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781641605380\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore has approved 16 species of insects for human consumption. Among them are honeybees, mealworms, grasshoppers and crickets, and restaurants are devising recipes for their menus.\u00a0 The United Nations\u2019 Food and Agriculture Organization promotes insects as\u00a0alternative protein sources, and notes that farming them is much better for the environment than raising cattle. Locusts in your&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/expanding-our-concept-of-edible-foods\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Expanding Our Concept of Edible Foods&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,25,44,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-environment","category-food","category-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}