In the production of bread, grasshoppers are used, which were specially grown for consumption in food. Flour from them in such an article is only 3% of the composition. About 70 insects are crushed for one loaf of bread.
Fazer claims that this is the first case in the world when insects were deliberately used in a bread recipe. The company plans to expand the sale of its product from ten supermarkets in Helsinki to 47 points throughout Finland.
In addition to bread, on the shelves of Finnish shops should appear granular insects, and by Christmas - grasshoppers in chocolate.
The use of insects in products to Finnish manufacturers was allowed in September 2017. The Finnish farm Entocube, which grows edible insects, claims that the protein content can be compared with pork and beef - 19.5 g per 100 g in a grasshopper compared to 19.3 g per 100 g of the cow. In this case, the production of food from insects does not have a negative impact on the environment, which can not be said about the production of meat, the company claims. Etnocube also believes that grasshoppers are a suitable alternative for meat, which, due to the growing population of the Earth in the coming years, may become a deficit.