A Finnish bakery and food service company launched on 23rd November, 2017 (Thursday) what it said was the world's first insect-based bread to be offered to consumers in stores. The bread, made from flour ground from dried crickets as well as wheat flour and seeds, contains more protein than normal wheat bread. Each loaf contains about seventy crickets and costs 3.99 euros (approximately Rs. 305), compared with 2-3 euros (Rs. 150-220) for a regular wheat loaf. "It offers consumers with a good protein source and also gives them an easy way to familiarise themselves with insect-based food", said Juhani Sibakov, Head of Innovation at Fazer Bakeries. The demand to find more food sources and a desire to treat animals more humanely have raised interest in using insects as a protein source in the West. In November 2017, Finland joined five other European countries - Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Denmark - in allowing insects to be raised and marketed for food use. Helsinki student Sara Koivisto said of the new bread, "I don't taste the difference...It tastes like bread".
-Challapalli Srinivas Chakravarthy-
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