{"id":15522,"date":"2024-03-25T15:16:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/?p=15522"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:33:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:33:33","slug":"will-edible-insects-be-more-nutritious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/en\/will-edible-insects-be-more-nutritious\/","title":{"rendered":"Will edible insects be more nutritious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A team of Czech scientists from 20 universities and companies is trying to improve the nutritional value of selected species of edible insects. These insects have become increasingly popular in recent years thanks to their protein content. Compared to livestock, their farming is much less demanding on the environment and the climate. Researchers have come together in the National Centre of Competence <a href=\"https:\/\/biocirkl.cz\/\">BIOCIRKL<\/a>, which is led by Dr. \u0160olcov\u00e1&#8217;s team from the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/hmyz.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/hmyz.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/hmyz.png 324w, https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/hmyz-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceskenoviny.cz\/zpravy\/2496249\">https:\/\/www.ceskenoviny.cz\/zpravy\/2496249<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Czech scientists from 20 universities and companies is trying to improve the nutritional value of selected species of edible insects. These insects have become increasingly popular in recent years thanks to their protein content. Compared to livestock, their farming is much less demanding on the environment and the climate. Researchers have come&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":15520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-applied-research","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19120,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522\/revisions\/19120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpf.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}