High Protein Shelf Stable Expanded Snacks: Based on Arthropods and Local Carbohydrate Sources

该项目将确定是否可以建立一个食品供应链，以便从尼日利亚农村地区供应当地采购的淀粉类材料和昆虫，以创造一种创新的新食品。测试表明，这种新食品可以用未精制的蛋白质和淀粉制成一种蛋白质含量超过40%的轻脆型产品。该产品的制造步骤并不复杂，环境成本低，作为研究的一部分，将检查在社区内进行制造的可行性。原型产品将用于尼日利亚的消费者测试，以确定这些产品是否为城市和农村社区所接受。如果产品受到欢迎，其营养和成本被证明是有益的，那么这些产品的使用将有助于实现创新英国挑战的目标，即促进健康、安全和营养的饮食。

This project will establish if a food supply chain can be developed so that locally sourced starchy materials and insects could be supplied from within rural Nigeria for the creation of an innovative new food product. Tests have shown that this new food product can be made from unrefined proteins and starch to create a light crispy type product that has a protein content of more than 40%. The manufacturing steps for the product are not complicated and have low environmental costs and, as part of the study, the feasibility of undertaking manufacturing within the community will be checked. Prototype products will be used in consumer testing within Nigeria to see if these are acceptable to urban and rural communities. If products are liked and their nutritional and cost demonstrated as beneficial then the use of these product will help achieve the Innovate UK Challenge goal of contributing to healthy, safe and nutritious diets.