College of Agriculture, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, PR China.
State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, Jilin University, Changchun 130000, PR China.
Food Chem Toxicol. 2018 Sep;119:237-251. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2018.04.016. Epub 2018 Apr 10.
Edible insects are ideal food sources, which contain important nutrients and health-promoting compounds. With a rapid development of industrial insect farming, insect-derived food is a novel and emerging food industry. Edible insects have been traditionally consumed in various communities, while continuously gaining relevance in today's society; however, they currently remain underutilized. Although there are a large number of literature on edible insects, these literature primarily focus on the nutritional value edible insects. The toxicity assessment data of edible insects remain incomprehensive, especially for the new national standard that is currently in effect; and many data and conclusions are not accurately specified/reported. Therefore, we performed a literature review and summarized the data on the toxicological assessment of edible insects in China. The review first describes the research progress on safety toxicological assessment, and then offers references regarding the development of 34 edible insect species in China. These data can be a platform for the development of future toxicological assessment strategies, which can be carried out by a multidisciplinary team, possibly consisting of food engineers, agronomists, farmers, and so on, to improve the acceptability of edible insects.
食用昆虫是理想的食物来源，它们含有重要的营养成分和有益健康的化合物。随着昆虫养殖业的快速发展，昆虫衍生食品是一个新颖且新兴的食品产业。食用昆虫在各种社区中一直被传统食用，而在当今社会也不断受到关注；然而，它们目前仍未得到充分利用。尽管有大量关于食用昆虫的文献，但这些文献主要集中在食用昆虫的营养价值上。食用昆虫的毒性评估数据仍然不全面，特别是对于目前生效的新国家标准；并且许多数据和结论没有准确地规定/报告。因此，我们进行了文献回顾，并总结了中国食用昆虫毒理学评估的数据。综述首先描述了安全毒理学评估的研究进展，然后为中国 34 种可食用昆虫的开发提供了参考。这些数据可以为未来的毒理学评估策略提供一个平台，该策略可以由一个多学科团队来执行，可能包括食品工程师、农学家、农民等，以提高食用昆虫的可接受性。
