Quality of edible insects seen by Belgian academics

peer reviewed ; In Belgium, as everywhere in Europe, edible insects are not yet introduced in food habits. Edible insects must reach a certain level of quality to be accepted as food by European people. Quality is defined as “the requirements necessary to satisfy the needs and expectations of the consumer”(1). In the case of food, quality is divided into five dimensions: Safety (i.e. hygienic quality), Health (i.e. nutritional quality), Satisfaction (i.e. organoleptic quality), Service (i.e. functional quality) and Society (i.e. symbolic quality). Each dimension has a variable importance depen... Mehr ...