potraviny/hmyz/patofyziologie-vlivy

Chitin in dogs

• Dogs can consume diets containing without adverse effects to their digestion or general health, even if the products are near-total replacements for common sources of protein by:
• BSFL
• Tropical house cricket
• Housefly larvae
• Lesser mealworm
• Yellow mealworm
• Higher fecal output was seen in dogs fed tropical house cricket
• Owing to the insect’s higher indigestible chitin content compared with chicken meal
• no differences in fecal score or stool quality were observed
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Glucose

• No significant differences after the ingestion of insects x other protein sources x isocaloric placebo
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Microbiota

• Decreased levels of Lactobacillus spp.
• Increased levels of Bifidobacterium
• Decrease in acetate and propionate short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) synthesis by microbiota in participants who consumed the meal with cricket

• Stull et al. (2018)

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Plant applications

• Fatty acids of the fat of Hermetia illucens larvae
• Antimicrobial properties against phytopathogens (Marusich et al., 2020)
• Opened the way to research for natural solution for crop protection.
• www.ocl-journal.org/articles/ocl/full_html/2022/01/ocl220011/ocl220011.html

Appetite Regulation

• no significant differences were observed
• Desire to eat
• Prospective food consumption between insect protein products and other protein sources
• Beef protein, almond protein
• Higher sensation of indigestion
• Reported for insect products in one study
• Another study did not observe any significant differences in feelings related to digestive health
• Different insects and quantities on hunger and satiet
• Lower hunger after consuming products containing higher quantities of cricket and lesser worm
• Significant differences were observed between men and women in this study.
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Biomarkers of inflammation

• Tumor necrosis factor alpha in plasma after 14 days of consuming a test meal with cricket powder
• Significantly lower level of compared to an isocaloric placebo meal
• Other cytokines and chemokines
• no significant differences
• SIgA, a marker of mucosal immunity
• no differences
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Immune functions and cecal microbiota

• Good in animals such as fish or rabbits (Hender et al., 2021; Dabbou et al., 2020).
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Insulin

• After insect protein and milk protein ingestion
• no significant differences
• Lower level of insulin for insect-based products
• Compared to those comprising soy, whey, beef protein
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Železo a konzumace hmyzu

• Až 3 měsíce
• no significant differences in the participants’ plasma hemoglobin and serum ferritin were observed between the test meals with cricket and placebo meals, irrespective of the meal-phytate content
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