Japan’s first ever insect instant noodles released with 100-cricket packed udon bowls
In recent years, we’ve seen makers in Japan begin to turn to crickets as a nutritionally efficient and less environmentally demanding protein source. While those…
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Japan’s new Cricket Coffee puts some extra hop in your morning brew
While it may have taken some warming up to for the uninitiated, more and more makers seem to be turning to insects as a nutritionally…
Put some hop in your lift with matcha cricket protein bars
While edible crickets have been available in Japan for a while as somewhat of an “off the beaten path snack”, even dispensed in vending machines,…
Put a spring in your sushi with cricket soy sauce from Antcicada
With powdered cricket, mealworm, beetles and ants making their way into snack foods, pasta, protein bars, and all manner of insect consumables filling the shelves…
Japanese organic cricket otsumami are the perfect drinking snack for believers in bug-eating
Otsumami are snacks for eating while enjoying alcohol, and in Japan, this is a pretty big part of drinking culture. In izakaya (Japanese pubs), very…
100 crickets per bowl: Enjoy insect-filled ramen at home thanks to Japan’s bug-eating advocates Antcicada
With all the extra time at home we’re enjoying at the moment, many want to use this chance to make a positive change in their…
Japan gets its first taste of domestic cricket craft beer
Inspired by Aesop’s fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper, Japanese startup Antcicada aims to dispel preconceptions about insect food. Since 2015, their “cricket ramen,”…