Meet the Six-Legged Superfoods: Grasshoppers Top Insect Antioxidant Rich List (IMAGE)

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Meet the Six-Legged Superfoods: Grasshoppers Top Insect Antioxidant Rich List

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Tables comparing antioxidant capacity (TEAC) of commercially available edible insects and arthropods, with: fresh orange juice (left, for water-soluble extracts) and olive oil (right, for lipid-soluble extracts). Note that the water-soluble extract figures are for the dry extract. Even so, some quick math shows that at the same dilution (88% water), grasshoppers and silkworms would have about 75% the antioxidant activity of OJ.

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Professor Mauro Serafini

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