African Edible Insects As Alternative Source of Food, Oil, Protein and Bioactive Components

Abdalbasit Adam Madrid is a Professor in the Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage Centre at Ghibaish College of Science & Technology in Ghibaish, Sudan.

• Importance of Insects as Food in Africa.- African Edible Insect Consumption Market.- Entomophagy In Africa.- Microbiology of African Edible Insects.- The food safety of edible insects.- Interdisciplinary Uses of Some Edible Species.- Sensory Quality of Edible Insects.- Automation of Insect Mass Rearing and Processing Technologies of Mealworms.- The legislative status of edible insects in the world.- Sorghum bug (Agonoscelis pubescens) as a source of edible oil, protein and gelatin.- Watermelon bug (Aspongopus viduatus) as a source of edible oil, protein and gelatin.- The Nutritional Composition of African Edible Acridians (Grasshoppers).- Nutrient Composition of Black Soldier Fly, Hermetia illucens.- Production, Nutrient Composition and Bioactive Components of Crickets (Gryllidae) for Human Nutrition.- Nutrient composition and bioactive components of ants Oecophylla smaragdina Fabricius.- Nutrient Composition and Bioactive Components of the Migratory Locust (Locusta migratoria).- Nutrient composition and bioactive components of Mopane worm (Gonimbrasia belina).- Nutrient composition of desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria).- Nutritional Value of Brood and Adult Workers of The Asia Honeybee Species Apis cerana and Apis dorsata.- Nutrient composition of Mealworm (Tenebrio molitor).- Nutrient composition of Termites Adepoju, Oladejo Thomas.- Ethiopian Termites in the Human Diet: an Investigation into their nutritional profile.- Index.