{"id":645,"date":"2020-12-18T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/?p=645"},"modified":"2021-10-06T13:25:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T12:25:57","slug":"beetle-burgers-or-cricket-snacks-insect-based-food-on-aberystwyth-research-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/2020\/12\/18\/beetle-burgers-or-cricket-snacks-insect-based-food-on-aberystwyth-research-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Beetle burgers or cricket snacks? Insect-based food on Aberystwyth research menu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"905\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/files\/2021\/10\/Hop-bars.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-467\" \/><figcaption>Hop bars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Crickets and beetles could become a common part of our diets, thanks to new academic research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insects are a common feature of people\u2019s everyday diets in countries around the world, such as Mexico, China and Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These insect-based foods offer a more environmentally-friendly source of protein than many other food stuffs, and could help feed the world\u2019s growing population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aberystwyth University is Wales\u2019 contribution to an international project, \u2018ValuSect\u2019, which aims to improve the sustainable production and processing techniques of insect-based products. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aber.ac.uk\/en\/news\/archive\/2020\/12\/title-239226-en.html\">Read article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crickets and beetles could become a common part of our diets, thanks to new academic research. Insects are a common feature of people\u2019s everyday diets in countries around the world, such as Mexico, China and Ghana. These insect-based foods offer a more environmentally-friendly source of protein than many other food stuffs, and could help feed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/2020\/12\/18\/beetle-burgers-or-cricket-snacks-insect-based-food-on-aberystwyth-research-menu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beetle burgers or cricket snacks? Insect-based food on Aberystwyth research menu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42508,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}