Journal of Insects as Food and Feed

期刊简介：The Journal of Insects as Food and Feed covers edible insects from harvesting in the wild through to industrial scale production. It publishes contributions to understanding the ecology and biology of edible insects and the factors that determine their abundance, the importance of food insects in people’s livelihoods, the value of ethno-entomological knowledge, and the role of technology transfer to assist people to utilise traditional knowledge to improve the value of insect foods in their lives. The journal aims to cover the whole chain of insect collecting or rearing to marketing edible insect products, including the development of sustainable technology, such as automation processes at affordable costs, detection, identification and mitigating of microbial contaminants, development of protocols for quality control, processing methodologies and how they affect digestibility and nutritional composition of insects, and the potential of insects to transform low value organic wastes into high protein products. At the end of the edible insect food or feed chain, marketing issues, consumer acceptance, regulation and legislation pose new research challenges. Food safety and legislation are intimately related. Consumer attitude is strongly dependent on the perceived safety. Microbial safety, toxicity due to chemical contaminants, and allergies are important issues in safety of insects as food and feed. Innovative contributions that address the multitude of aspects relevant for the utilisation of insects in increasing food and feed quality, safety and security are welcomed.

【译文】该期刊涵盖了从野外采集到工业化规模生产的可食用昆虫。它发表了对理解可食用昆虫的生态学和生物学、决定其丰富度的因素、食物昆虫在人们生计中的重要性、民族昆虫学知识的价值以及技术转让在帮助人们利用传统知识提高昆虫食品价值方面的作用的贡献。该期刊旨在涵盖昆虫收集或养殖到可食用昆虫产品营销的整个链条，包括可持续技术的发展，如经济实惠的自动化工艺，微生物污染物的检测、鉴定和减轻，质量控制协议的开发，加工方法及其对昆虫消化性和营养成分的影响，以及昆虫将低价值有机废物转化为高蛋白产品的潜力。在可食用昆虫食品或饲料链的末端，营销问题、消费者接受度、法规和立法提出了新的研究挑战。食品安全和法规密切相关。消费者的态度强烈依赖于感知的安全性。微生物安全性、化学污染物的毒性以及过敏是昆虫作为食品和饲料安全的重要问题。欢迎针对与昆虫在提高食品和饲料质量、安全性和保障方面相关的多个方面进行创新贡献。