Extended trials to determine the shelf-life and optimal storage conditions of protein alternative cricket powder

恩托莫农场是当地一家专门生产昆虫蛋白的公司。他们的昆虫蛋白粉是专门为人类消费而加工的，是独特的、创新的、极具营养的和环境可持续的食品生产模式。Entomo Farm的目标是成为公认的世界领先企业，以最优质的有机和世界级昆虫蛋白的形式提供蛋白质替代品，并提供美味的产品和食谱。此外，Entomo农场正在努力使更多的人能够、鼓励和教育更多的人了解他们的蛋白质碳足迹的相关性和社会政治影响。随着人们越来越多地意识到他们的食物是如何准备的，并努力生产更多有机和不含转基因的产品，Entomo Farm通过其蟋蟀粉提供了一种无麸质、蛋白质的替代品，它的蛋白质含量是牛肉的两倍，钙含量比牛奶多，包含所有九种必需氨基酸，铁含量比菠菜多。所有这一切都是通过使用典型牛肉、猪肉和鸡肉养殖所需的一小部分农业必需品来实现的。商业零售商对销售这种产品有极大的兴趣，然而，Entomo农场必须首先满足国际和加拿大食品检验局(CFIA)的几项指导方针。因此，在过去的12个月里，保诚学院一直在与Entomo Farm合作，解决CFIA指南中的“工业食品标签：日期标记和储存说明”。该项目为Entomo Farm的板球面粉产品提供了至少12个月的“最佳日期”。然而，由于该产品在12个月内没有表现出任何明显的变质迹象，预计保质期为18-24个月。因此，建议再进行一年的分析，以便收集进一步的数据，以提供产品的准确稳定性，并使Entomo Farm能够在国内和国际上分销他们的板球面粉。

Entomo Farms is a local company who specialize in insect protein production. Their insect protein powder, which is specifically and exclusively processed for human consumption, is unique, innovative, extremely nutritious and an environmentally sustainable model of food production. Entomo Farms is motivated to be recognized as a world leader in providing protein alternatives in the form of the finest organic and world-class insect proteins with great tasting products and recipes. Additionally, Entomo Farms is striving to enable, encourage and educate more people on the relevance and socio-political impact of their protein carbon footprint. With the population becoming more conscious about how their food is prepared and endeavoring towards more organic and GMO free products, Entomo Farms offers a gluten-free, protein alternative through its cricket powder that has twice the amount of protein than beef, more calcium than milk, includes all nine essential amino acids, and has more iron than spinach. All of this is accomplished by using a fraction of the farming essentials that typical beef, pork, and chicken farming require. There is tremendous interest from commercial retailers to sell this product, however, Entomo Farms must first satisfy several International and Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) guidelines. Therefore, for the past 12 months, Loyalist College has been collaborating with Entomo Farms to address the 'Food Labeling for Industry: Date Markings and Storage Instructions', from the CFIA guidelines. This project resulted in providing Entomo Farms with a "best before" date of at least 12 months for their cricket flour product. However, as a result of the product not showing any significant signs of deterioration over the 12 months, a shelf life of 18- 24 months is expected. Thus, another year of analyses is recommended in order to gather further data to provide an accurate stability of the product and allow Entomo Farms the ability to distribute their cricket flour nationally and internationally.