Insect-based protein sources and their potential for human consumption: Nutritional composition and processing

Animal Frontiers

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 20-24

  Rumpold, Birgit A ^a   Schlüter, Oliver ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND BIOECONOMY ATB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative protein source; Entomophagy; Food application; Food security; Functional properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013783289     PISSN: 21606056     EISSN: 21606064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/af.2015-0015     Document Type: Article

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