Question 1

Crickets are easy and cheap to raise. Yet the final product is sold for $55/lb more than the best piece for organic grassfed beef. Why?

Accepted Answer

Nicolas, great question! Cricket Powder (flour) is currently still quite pricey, but for good reason. While crickets are easy and moderately cheap to raise, raising them in large quantities actually takes a lot of space and human resources. On average it takes approximately 5000 - 5500 crickets to make a single pound of cricket powder. That's a lot of cricket's when you think about how many pounds companies need to sell to make a viable business. Though people have been consuming insects since the dawn of time, the process of raising them and milling them in such large quantities for human consumption is still relatively quite new. A few companies are currently trying to automate some of this process, but currently it is still a very labor intensive undertaking. As the industry grows you will see this price decrease, but at this point it is still expensive to manufacture this powder on a large scale. As far as prices go, it is actually cheaper per ounce to buy in larger quantities, so we do also sell products in the 1/2lb and 1lb packaging as well.We highly recommend trying cricket powder. It is much more sustainable than beef and other proteins sources, and is naturally packed with vitamins and minerals essential for healthy living. Thanks for the great question and feel free to reach out to us with more questions at www.cricketflours.com.

Question 2

So are the crickets fed a vegan diet?  Or animal byproducts?

Accepted Answer

Great question and our crickets are fed an organic non-GMO mixture of different vegetables and mineral/vitamin mixes to get them the proper nutrition they need.  Our farms do not use any animal byproducts.  Thanks again!

Question 3

Are the crickets, for lack of a better word, disemboweled before they are roasted, or does the flour contain their tiny, cooked poo?

Accepted Answer

As read in one of the other questions they are not processed until a couple days after their last meal so it doesn't contain cooked "poo".

Question 4

What are the crickets fed and raised on?

Accepted Answer

The crickets we use in all of our products are grown and raised here in North America in facilities designed for human consumption.  However depending on which Cricket Flours product line, there will be slight differences in feed if it is our organic/non-GMO lines or our high protein lines.  The cricket feed is specifically designed to provide the crickets with the nutrition they need and to mimic their natural diets to include around 20% protein in addition to vegetables, vitamins and minerals.

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