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• https://www.naturalnews.com by Ethan Huff

 Be careful when buying "health food" as some corporations have already begun quietly adding cricket "flour" and other insect-based ingredients to products labeled "sustainable" and "nutritious."

One company called Actually Foods is now selling a Cheddar Cheese Puffs product that contains "organic cricket flour" in the "puff" ingredients list. The product, which comes from Canada, is labeled using the terms "nutritious," "sustainable," and "delicious."

The Cheddar Cheese Puffs product from Actually Foods is also branded as being high in protein because it is "powered by crickets" – the suggestion being that crickets are a "superfood."

It turns out that Entomo Farms, the parent company of Actually Foods, is on a mission "to make cricket-based foods the first choice for individuals interested in high-quality, sustainable protein." The company offers an entire line of products with cricket ingredients, including cricket protein powder and whole roasted crickets, both in regular and "organic.