Insects are animals and so we would always say no to vegans being able to eat them.

One of the sustainable benefits with crickets are that they have not been recorded in giving off Greenhouse Gas Emissions like other livestock do, this combined with their vertical farming production methods, means they also use less land, water and food to be produced as well.

Yes! But when we created Love Bug Foods, we utilised the word “bug” in the name because we want to expand to other insects as soon as we can. We hope to be able to do that as we develop as a business and will keep you updated when we do so.

Many insects like to be housed in containers, where it is dark and warm and they are surrounded by food and water. What this enables farms to do is “vertically farm”, as you can stack containers on top of one another – meaning 1 metre squared space can hold multiple containers and therefore millions of insects!

We sell 3 different powders to help make the experience you have with the powder the most successful. By having 3 different powders, you can work with the one which is most suitable to what you are looking to do with the powder.

• Whole Cricket Powder – The cheapest of the 3 powders, works well in all formats but has less protein than the other 2 powders and is not as fine a powder.
• Super Fine Powder – This works great with sauces, bread and pastas as the powder has gone through a further sieving and milled process, so the powder is much finer.
• Defatted Powder – This is also very fine but slightly more expensive because we have removed 50% of the original fat content of the cricket, using a method called cold-pressing, this makes the powder leaner! It works great with your breakfast smoothie as it blends well and will keep the carbs lower but protein intake higher.

Crickets don’t have a salty or sweet taste to them, we describe them as having a nutty type flavour but we would love to hear what you think!

Insects are highly nutritious, containing high levels of protein, this combined with them being more sustainable to farm over traditional animals, is making them become more and more popular.

Currently within the EU there are only the following insects:

• Yellow Mealworms (dried – either whole or as a milled powder)
• Locusta Migratoria (Either frozen or dried and either as whole or as a milled powder)
• Acheta Domesticus Crickets (dried – either whole or as a milled powder)

The crickets we use in all our products are the Acheta Domesticus variety, the most commonly known of the cricket family.

People who are allergic to molluscs and crustaceans or dust mites may have an allergic reaction to crickets.