Cricket Flour Protein Powder
Ancient “Lost” Food Group Now Back in Action
A Protein Enhancer and Much More
Look at any indigenous people still living in the world. Look at our ancient ancestors. They all ate insects. In fact, for many insects were a delicacy and a highly prized food as they’re loaded with nutrition.
The only reason we stopped eating insects is because we became
“civilized” because they were
“yucky”. And with that rampant disease became far more common.
We’ve brought you ant! And now we bring you crickets!
Fun Facts!
Entomophagy is the eating of insects by people.
Did you know the average person consumes 1 kilogram (over 2 pounds) of insects per year from commercial food supplies?
You’re eating bugs whether you want to or not. So why not intentionally use this great food supply?
Cricket Protein vs. Beef
How much protein is in a cricket? Our cricket flour comes in at a whopping 62.6% protein in the powder.
Dried beef on the other hand comes in around 29-43%.
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I like to think of this as a “Protein Enhancer.” Because it does cost more than most protein powders out there you’re not going to be using massive amounts of it typically.
What I’ll often do for a Protein Shake is to use something else, like a quality whey protein, or maybe hemp, and then add a scoop of cricket protein on top of that.
Each scoop has 6.2 grams of protein.
Cricket Powder Protein Bar Recipe
With this powder you can make your own cricket protein bars. Here’s a sample recipe:
- 1 ½ cups figs
- 1 ½ pecan and brazil nuts
- 4 TB chia seeds
- 8 TB Cricket
- 6 TB Cacao
- 4 TB Honey
- Coconut Flakes
Process in a food processor or a blender (Vitamix works great), pour into a pan and let sit in a freezer.
Some other ideas include cricket pancakes, cricket brownies, cricket cookies and cricket chips.
Cricket Flour Nutrition Facts
As already mentioned cricket is a complete protein source with 62.6% protein by weight. And it has so much more. Tons of amino acids, vitamins and minerals.
Our cricket flour is 19.22% fatty acids which includes a range of saturated (6.4%), monunsaturated (4.6%) and polyunsaturated fats (7%). It even has small amounts of EPA and DHA.
Nutrition Per 10gram Scoop
- 44.7 Calories
- 0.59g Carbohydrates
- 0.66g Fiber
- 6.26g Protein
- 1.92g Fat
Full Amino Acid Profile
- 0.44g Aspartic Acid
- 0.18g Threonine
- 0.23g Serine
- 0.53g Glutamic Acid
- 0.27g Proline
- 0.22g Glycine
- 0.46g Alanine
- 0.27g Valine
- 0.21g Isoleucine
- 0.36g Leucine
- 0.25g Tyrosine
- 0.18g Phenylalanine
- 0.28g Lysine
- 0.12g Histidine
- 0.31g Arginine
- 0.04g Cysteine
- 0.09g Methionine
- 3.0mg L-Carnitine
- 29mg Taurine
- 0.05mg Trypthophan
Minerals in Cricket
- 14.7mg Calcium
- 0.59mg Iron
- 39.1mg Sodium
- 77.1mg Phosphorus
- 0.06mg Copper
- 101mg Potassium
- 11.8mg Magnesium
- 0.39mg Manganese
- 1.73mg Zinc
- 5.51mcg Iodine
- 8.83mcg Selenium
Vitamins in Cricket
- 0.5mg Thiamine (B1)
- 0.3mg Riboflavin (B2)
- 0.74mg Niacin (B3)
- 0.80mg Pantothenic Acid (B5)
- 0.04mg Vitamin B6
- 14.83mcg Folic Acid (B9)
- 0.85mcg Vitamin B12
- 4 IU’s Vitamin D
- 0.8 IU’s Vitamin E
- 4.11mcg Biotin
- 32mg Choline
Here’s how crickets compare to some other insects that are eaten around the world. 3
Crickets compared to other insects in ratio of fats and protein.
The flavor is a little nutty, and similar to dried powdered corn.
Each 300 gram bag contains a 10 gram scoop, providing you a 30 scoop supply, meaning one scoop per day will last you a month.
10 grams delivers 6.2 grams of protein and so much more.
Contraindications: If you have a shellfish allergy, it’s possible you may also be allergic to crickets.
For more details on eating insects check out the infographic below.
Product of USA
* These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
** We test all products on ourselves to verify the claims made by supplier’s and are in the process of getting them independently lab tested to verify contents. These products are not certified organic but would likely pass that inspection if it was paid for. GMO-Free.