ISSUE FOCUS 50 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE October 2022 Precise monitoring of the beetles’ environment ensures product safety, consistency and traceability over time, a real asset for R&D development, quality control and regulatory requirements. MEALWORM PROTEINS: THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS As the farming industry is responsible for almost a quarter of the annual green gas emissions, pet food plays a major role in the climate crisis. In fact, the pet food industry produces almost 3% of the total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from farming4. Compared to traditional feed, mealworms can be farmed commercially with less water, land and energy while producing high-quality feed with fewer greenhouse gas emissions. As such, diets that include a large amount of mealworm proteins offer the optimum solution to reduce environmental impact while providing high nutritional benefits4. Combining the best of both worlds, mealworm-based products are one of the best proteins available on the market able to show not only performance and health but also sustainability. As the insect-based petfood market could increase 50-fold by 20305, mealworm proteins will most likely be gaining a foothold in the sector as a premium and high-value ingredient that will open the industry to new food product developments that are climate friendly, efficient and nutritious. References: 1Bosch et al. - 2014 - Protein quality of insects as potential ingredient 2E.Wynants et al. – 2019 - Risks related to the presence of Salmonella sp. during rearing of mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) for food or feed: Survival in the substrate and transmission to the larvae 3Tzachor et al. – 2021 - Future foods for risk-resilient diets 4Peter Alexander et al. – 2020 The global environmental paw print of pet food 5The Guardian – 2021 - Why feeding your pets insects could become all the buzz About Bénédicte Lorrette Bénédicte Lorrette is Animal Nutrition & Health R&D Director at Ynsect. She joined Ynsect more than 5 years ago as a researcher specialized in insect product analysis and characterization. Today, in this role, Bénédicte is responsible for leading research and development programs to deepen the knowledge of current insect products and to adapt them to the different and the new animal markets for insects (aquaculture, petfood, swine and poultry). Bénédicte's scientific expertise and knowledge of Ynsect's ingredients and processes also enables her to provide support to the business development, regulatory and intellectual property teams. Prior to joining Ynsect, Bénédicte worked in various research and technical roles with public, academic and private companies. Bénédicte holds an Engineer diploma of Food Science and a Master of Science in Food Science and Biotechnology from ENSAIA, Nancy (Lorraine University), followed by a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Avignon University.
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