Finnish bakery Fazer is marketing loaves of bread made with crickets as an ingredient in the flour, says Food Navigator. The company’s innovation director, Juhani Sibakov, says the bread has “a crunchy dough to enhance taste and increase mouthfeel.”
Each loaf contains about 70 ground-up crickets and has more protein than bread made with wheat flour. The cricket loaf, available at Fazer’s 11 in-store bakeries in Finland, costs 4 euros compared with 2 to 3 euros for a more conventional loaf.
Great Britain, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Austria also allow insects to be raised and sold for food purposes, said Food Navigator, but Switzerland allows the sale of food containing crickets, grasshoppers, and mealworms. A Swiss company, Essento, has launched a line of insect burgers and meatballs.