[M-SD36] [JJ] Space foods and Space Agriculture

[MSD36-05] The use of the insect as space foods

*Naomi Katayama¹ (1.Nagoya Women's University)

Keywords:Insect foods, Pani, Space foods

A food production is a very important problem in space. The technology development for production of animal protein in particular is important. We think that the use of the insect is the most effective efficiently to produce animal protein in a narrow spaceship. We suggested the space foods using a silkworm pupa, a grasshopper, a larva of a wasp, an escargot, the white ant so far. We introduce "Pani" eaten this time as a precious protein source in Africa, Botswana. It is the insect which occurs when it rains in December and April. It is the food which is more expensive than beef. I remove the internal organs and boil it and am dried afterwards. We can save it when we dry up it. We store it during one year and eat. We put it in soup. We fries it with a tomato and onion and oil. We fries it with milk. It is the insect "Pani" which we want to add to space foods by all means.