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Whole Cricket Powder
- 72 grams of protein (per 100g)
- Perfect for adding into baked goods like Cakes, Breads & Pasta
- No preservatives, artificial flavouring or colouring
- Contain no sugar (perfect for those on sugar free diets like Keto)
Cricket Powder can be added to a variety of baked goods to provide a nutritional boost to whatever you are preparing. We particularly enjoy them within brownies, cookies, cakes and bread. When using the powder to bake with, you need to use it alongside the normal flour you bake with, we have found success using the cricket powder as 30% of your normal intake – with the other 70% of your normal flour.
- 72 grams of protein (per 100g)
- Perfect for adding into baked goods like Cakes, Breads & Pasta
- No preservatives, artificial flavouring or colouring
- Contain no sugar (perfect for those on sugar free diets like Keto)
The cricket powder is created by taking dried crickets and milling them to create a flour like texture and finish. Many people ask how many crickets are within 100grams and we say on estimate 1000 crickets!
What we love most about cricket powder is that they are a fantastic sustainable food choice, requiring less food, water and land than beef, chicken and pigs per 100grams of food produced.
Looking for something which has more protein and less carbs, try our Super Light Cricket Powder!
100% Acheta Domesticus Crickets
| Energy value | 1477 kJ/ 353 kcal |
| Fat | 10g |
| …of which saturates | 4.6g |
| Carbohydrates | 7.8g |
| …of which sugars | 0g |
| Fibre | 7.8g |
| Protein | 72g |
| Salt | 0.438g |
If you are allergic to mollusc, crustaceans or dust mites then you may have an allergic reaction to crickets.
Store in a cool, dry place. Once opened, consume within a month.
What our customers say
Frequently asked questions
Read our FAQs on the products we are selling. We regularly update our FAQs with questions that you ask us which don’t currently feature in the list below. We understand that eating insects might be something new and different for you and so want to provide you as much information as possible to ease any anxieties.
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.