Bugs are so nutritious, why do people hate to eat bugs?

This may have something to do with the habits of early human beings.

Before humans learned to use fire, people could only eat some raw food.

In order for humans to survive, we can speculate that at that time, people had to do everything they could to find food. Bugs are supposed to be one of their food, but they don't taste particularly good compared to the fruits of all plants. Or the types and numbers of these bugs are not too many compared to plants.

Coupled with the fact that bugs are not easy to store, bugs are no longer food for people.

Before humans mastered the use of fire, they may have been accustomed to eating the fruits of plants as their daily food. In response to this assumption, humans began to collect more and more fruit from plants to satisfy their hunger.

After they have mastered the use of fire, they have forgotten that bugs can replenish protein**. There may also be people who use bugs as food, but compared to some large prey, such as ......The size of the insect is too small. For this reason, bugs have also been removed from the human food lineage.

After a long period of time, humanity entered an agrarian society. In different parts of the planet, humans have domesticated different crops. In North America, humans domesticated maize.

In Central Asia and Europe, humans have successfully domesticated wheat. In South Asia, humans domesticated rice.

Since then, human beings have bid farewell to the life of gathering and hunting, and have begun to live a settled life. In this way, there will be no one to eat the bugs.

In fact, although there are instinctive reasons for the aversion to bugs, a large part of them is caused by social culture.

1.It is still an agricultural civilization, and insects play more of a role as "pests" (in fact, they are competitors), and the education they have received since childhood is ......Inside, the word "pest" can explain the problem.

2.In terms of hygiene, in an artificial environment, the presence of insects generally means that the management is chaotic and the hygiene is poor, and the corresponding ,... isLove House & U....Oops, you know what I mean!

Racial instincts. People are not even interested in eating things that don't look good (especially people like me, whether they taste good or not, they definitely don't eat things that don't look good).

It is undeniable that humans retain too many early stage characteristics of the race, such as the judgment of appearance (the love of cats and dogs with brains similar to those of babies, and the fear or aversion of physical traits with obvious threatening colors, and bugs ...... in this regard).Just look at how many horror movies have made bugs gigantic).

There is also an aversive instinct for hygienic reasons, and a phobia of dense objects. As bugs that often have strange smells, unconventional proportions of combat organs, strange toxins, and a body of germs that are still alive and kicking because they are too strong (the focus is on the germs), fear is buried deep in the genes. (I'm more inclined to call it racial memory) <>

Why don't I eat it, you ask? Because it's so ugly! You think about those eyes, those tentacles, and I'm going to vomit when you think about it.

Because of the appearance of bugs, it makes people feel disgusting, so people will. Hates bugs.

If you like to eat insects, then you can eat it... Hehehehe.

Do you think it's good to eat bugs? Why?

The insects that can be eaten are crickets, scorpions, grasshoppers Sun Zheng, ants, agave worms, etc., among which crickets are insects used all over the world, and the protein content is extremely high, and scorpions only need to remove the tail to cook and use, in addition, grasshoppers appear in barbecue restaurants all over the world, and the calcium content is not often rich. Hope.

If you don't eat bugs because you're "lazy", that's also reasonable. Because the size of the worm is very small, if you want to use the worm to fill your stomach, how much does it have to be! In addition, the appearance of insects is terrifying, and it takes a certain amount of courage to eat them.

If you want to make yourself able to eat, you have to cook well, which is also a very troublesome thing.

Although the insects are small, it is not easy to catch. Moreover, insects have a specific living environment, and it is not easy to find them if you deliberately look for them. It's like a small insect on a vegetable leaf, if you want to eat them, you have to grow the vegetable leaves.

There are many more delicious things than bugs. People don't want to spend time on it, so they give up eating bugs.

Bugs eat a wide variety of things, and it's not just about whether they're poisonous or not. If you want to eat bugs, you have to take the time to test whether they are poisonous, which is also a very troublesome thing. It took so much time and energy just to eat that little bit of meat, it's not worth it.

But people still eat bugs in certain situations. For example, if a ** falls on a desert island, it can only eat insects when there is nothing else. When we see the desert island survival in the TV series, we will have such a picture.

Nowadays, people's lives are slowly getting better, the requirements for food are getting higher and higher, and the inclusiveness is getting stronger and stronger, and eating bugs is no longer an uncommon thing. If you travel to Yunnan, you will find that there are some snacks on the street that are specially fried all kinds of insects, cockroaches, grasshoppers, cicada pupae and so on.

The local people are full of praise for these little bugs, which are a very famous local snack. These bugs may not be natural and most of them are farmed in captivity.

No harmful substances are added during breeding, so these insects are definitely harmless to the human body when they eat them. Not only that, but these bugs are often high-protein foods, which have great benefits for the human body after eating.

Humans are reluctant to eat insects because they feel disgusting when they see them moving, and they have no appetite. Moreover, some insects are not edible and harmful to the body.

Many bugs carry a lot of bacteria and viruses, which have a great impact on the human body. Another reason is that the insects look disgusting, and then eat them in the stomach, I believe that there are many people who refuse!

Yes, bugs are delicious, but the process of handling bugs is very troublesome, so no one wants to eat them.

No, because bugs contain a lot of microorganisms and bacteria, and human immunity is not good, so they can't digest these things.

The reason why humans don't eat bugs is that they know that bugs have a lot of bacteria in them, and bacteria can get sick if they eat them in the stomach.

The day when agrarian societies defeated hunting societies, insects and other small arthropods were doomed to become the mainstream of food. In the general history of the world, there is a reference to the study of primitive hunter-gatherer societies that exist. Among them are statistics on their food.

Whether it is a small tribe of dozens of people in Africa or the Maori people in the Australian desert, the variety of food is far more than that of modern people, basically 100+, including various insects and other arthropods. In hunting societies, bugs (in the broad sense) occupy a high proportion (in species). But for an agrarian society, it is unforgivable to treat bugs as an important food**.

The evolution of the domestication of animals and plants, the consequences and the future) do not have the conditions for large-scale breeding, they are affected by the solar terms and the climate is great like plants, but the products and propagules (carcasses and eggs) do not have easy storage conditions. <>

Sometimes people will compare shrimp with insects, which will have two results: one is that people who dare not eat insects become afraid to eat them, and the other is that people who originally ate shrimp and eat well also begin to feel that shrimp is disgusting. This is because you start thinking about the side of the shrimp as a living creature, you start thinking about its shape and texture, which in some places really resembles a bug.

These are things you never thought about when you ate shrimp before. In fact, everyone agrees that the protein of worms is very good, but most people can't overcome the psychological barrier. I feel that there are two ways to increase the proportion of insect eaters:

One is to process the insect body into powder and make it into other forms of food, such as biscuits. After all, if you can't see the original form, people will feel less disgusted, and it will definitely be more acceptable than the direct fried way of eating; The second is to let our children come into contact with bugs as food early, and start eating them before they have established an aversion to bugs, so that there is no longer a problem of psychological disorders.

Mine may have nothing to do with evolution. I think that if you want to develop an insectivorous culture, you have to be promoted artificially.

It's a long story. Let's start with the history of human food. Ancient humans relied mainly on gathering, fishing and hunting for food.

Collecting plant fruits, which is mainly done by women and children. Going out hunting, this is mainly done by young men. Later, domesticated plants and animals evolved.

Animals such as pigs, cows, horses, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese. Plants such as rice, wheat, soybeans, sorghum and various vegetables and fruits. For hundreds of thousands of years, human diets revolved around these plants and animals.

Hundreds of thousands of years, which in itself has a plausibility. During this process, no insects appeared. Not only in the East, but also in Western culture, it has not appeared.

Why? Because the existing animals and plants - pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, rice, wheat are varieties with the least input and the highest returns under long-term natural and artificial selection, under various climatic and geographical conditions in the world. Now we know that locusts have a high nutritional value, why was no one raised them in ancient times?

Others include centipedes, toads, cobras. Although today we know that cobra venom is a protein, it will denature and become non-venomous when heated at high temperatures, so cobras can also be boiled and eaten. Note, however, that this biochemical knowledge is too advanced for both ancient and modern people.

Even if you know that it is non-toxic, this animal cannot be stably obtained by ancient humans; It's not like a wild boar or a wild horse, one is enough for the clan to eat for a week. The cost of collecting locusts and other small animals is quite high, and the supply is not stable, so it is better to devote energy to other species, such as growing rice and wheat, such as domesticating pigs, cattle and sheep. <>

It's been a long time since I've watched "Everyday Upward", I picked an issue to watch in the past two days, and I chose an issue that was filmed in Yunnan, and the second half was eating a peacock feast, many of the dishes in it were made of insects, and the guests were so scared when they ate it, and they felt like they were eating hard, I don't know if this is a variety show or is it really that afraid? Especially when they ate so many times on the show.

I'm not from Yunnan, but I often ate insects when I was a child, and even looked forward to eating insects, although I haven't eaten them for many years, but it will always be a delicacy in my memory.

There are two main types of insects that I ate when I was a child, one is in firewood, which we call the drill wood worm ; One is in the tea seed pile, which we call the tea seed worm.

When I was a child, whenever my father was chopping firewood, I would take a small bowl or cup and wait next to it, and I would be happy to catch a bug when I saw it.

The tea seed worm is much smaller than the drill wood worm, and it eats less, because no one in our family goes to the mountain to pick tea seeds, only the neighbors sometimes go to pick and pile at home, we occasionally go to turn it over, but the number of each time we find it will be more than the drill wood worm, because the family will not split a lot of firewood every time, and the tea seed worm can always turn a lot as long as it is turned in the tea seed pile Kaizen.

In fact, I have always regretted not trying to eat roasted Huang worms, my grandfather used to tell us about roasted Huang worms, at that time it sounded really delicious, now if you find a chance to eat it, you must not have the feeling of the year.

Maybe it was the delusion that I didn't have anything to eat when I was a child, but bugs are really a delicacy in my heart.