You know what adds the perfect zest to a roach milk shake? A nice drizzle of mealworm oil. And why not. It has all the advantages of other oils with only the mild disadvantage of being made from crushed up bugs.
Researchers are experimenting with the abundantly available insect for producing a margarine-like product. It's yellow, with a similar nutritional makeup of 50-50 canola and soybean oil. It has no trans fats, and the solid mealworm fat is low in saturated fats, but is missing much of the healthy omega-3 fatty acid that other oils contain. The advantage is in the good it does the Earth, rather than the body: mealworms are readily cultivated and a sustainable source.
"It smells very mild ... grassy. It's not bad," Daylan Tzompa-Sosa, a researcher at Wageningen University and Research Center, told the Washington Post. They weren't allowed to taste test it themselves, for scientific integrity. Likely story.
[H/T The Washington Post]
