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This bakery is selling bread made from insects
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A bakery in Finland has rolled out bread made from crushed crickets, said to be the first of its kind.
The bread is made using flour ground from dried crickets, as well as wheat flour and seeds.
Each loaf costs $4.72 (€3.99), contains around 70 crickets and has more protein than your average loaf of wheat bread.
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“It offers consumers a good protein source and also gives them an easy way to familiarise themselves with insect based food,” Juhani Sibakov, the head of innovation at bakery store Fazer, told newswire Reuters. Read more…
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