Edible Crickets

  • Edible insects - dried whole crickets

Edible Crickets, farmed in the U.K. and mostly packaged in fully biodegradable pouches.

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What do they taste like


We describing the flavour as earthy and somewhere between mushrooms and meat.

Processing method
Our crickets are oven dried. This process removes most of the moisture (only <5% left) leaving the crickets crunchy and tasty. Furthermore, the product contains no added preservatives or flavouring.

What type of crickets are edible
There are no reports of poisonous crickets in nature. Most species are edible, however the U.K. currently restricts the sale to Acheta Domesticus (common house cricket). We do not recommend harvesting crickets from the wild, as they will have to go a very strict microbiological assessment to make sure they are safe. Also it is important that you consume those which have been fed a diet of approved feed (for example, the feed cannot include animal protein).

Processing method
Our crickets are dried in industrial microwave driers. This process removes most of the moisture (only 5% left) leaving the crickets crunchy and tasty. The product contains no added preservatives or flavouring.

Average nutritional content

[per 100g of product]
Energy (Kj) 1893
Energy (Kcal) 451
Protein (g) 70.8
Fat (g) 18.3 of which
Saturated fatty acids (g) 8
Carbohydrate (g) 1.3
of which Sugars (g) 0.4
Fibre (g) 1.1
Sodium (g) 0.47