Web Site of the Week

Each week, we highlight a Web site that we think may be helpful in some way to teachers. The highlighted sites are not part of or connected with Science News for Kids, Science News, or Science Service. We are not responsible for their content.

Oct. 10, 2007

Yummy Bugs

Do you enjoy chocolate? You can make it more nutritious by bugging it—with crickets, for example. Or how about ant-fortified tacos? This site introduces students to the idea that many commonly encountered insects are edible. Indeed, most are lower in fat—and higher in protein—than beef, lamb, pork, or chicken. And of course the site gives recipes.

Go to: www.manataka.org/page160.html

P.S. Skeptical about whether this is for real? Consult the Ohio State University Extension Service. It's got a fact sheet on "microlivestock"—or eating insects as human food—at ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2160.html.

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