Some Gulf states have a tradition of eating dried and baked locusts, which can appear in plague proportions.

Insects are widely eaten around the globe, with an estimated 1,000 species appearing on the dinner plates of some two billion people in Africa, Asia and Latin America.īut apart from traditional diets, cricket pasta and mealworm smoothies have become the latest food trend in some world capitals, with edible insects being promoted as a sustainable alternative to regular protein sources. 'My ambition is for worms to be a successful food alternative for humans,' he told AFP. In another, he puts the mature beetles for mating. In a small, dark room outside Kuwait City, Buabbas places the worm-like larvae of the darkling beetle, famed for their high protein content, into a transparent box on a bed of bran and cornflour. Kuwaiti businessman Jassem Buabbas has spent years breeding 'superworms' for animal feed and now hopes the creatures will find their way into the diets of Gulf citizens.

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