CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, NUTRIENT QUALITY AND ACCEPTABILITY OF EDIBLE INSECTS ARE AFFECTED BY SPECIES, DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE, GENDER, DIET, AND PROCESSING METHOD

Edible insects have been considered as either nutritious food itemsper se, or as wholesome ingredients to various dishes Gelatin Substitute and components of traditional subsistence.Protein, fat, mineral and vitamin contents in insects generally satisfy the requirements of healthy food, although there is considerable variation associated with insec

Solving the robotic swarm coverage problem for an elliptical area has various applications Bowls for exploring novel environments.Solutions for this problem should cover a specified ellipse and seamlessly adapt to changing numbers of robots.Previous solutions used techniques such as formation control, vector fields, and neural networks.While these

In response to the dangerous behavior of pedestrians roaming freely on unsupervised train tracks, the real-time detection of pedestrians is urgently required to ensure the safety of trains and people.Aiming to improve the low accuracy of railway pedestrian detection, the high missed-detection rate of target pedestrians, and the poor retention of no

The use of the tartrazine yellow additive in food products for human consumption is permitted within the acceptable daily intake of 7.5 mg/kg of body weight per day (following the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives standards).However, studies have described this as a toxic component.The dye, which is intensively used in the industry and comme

The agro-industrial production of genetically modified organisms uses great amounts of pesticides, close to cities, which generates growing concern due to the numerous evidence of their negative effects on health and the environment.In a context of the lack, or inaccessibility, of official data on crop dynamics and pesticide use, environmental indi