芬蘭一家食品公司推出蟋蟀粉面包

A Finnish bakery has launched what it claims to be the world's first insect-based bread to be offered to consumers in stores.

近日，芬蘭一家烘焙食品公司推出號稱是世界上首款以昆蟲爲材料、在店鋪面向消費者銷售的麪包。

The bread, made using flour ground from dried crickets as well as wheat flour and seeds, has more protein than normal wheat bread.

這款麪包由幹蟋蟀磨成的粉末、小麥粉和種子製成，比一般小麥麪包含有更多蛋白質。

Each loaf contains about 70 crickets and costs 3.99 euros, compared with 2-3 euros for a regular wheat loaf.

每條麪包約含70只蟋蟀，售價3.99歐元。相較之下，一般小麥麪包的售價爲每條2-3歐元。

Juhani Sibakov, the head of innovation at the bakery firm Fazer, said that Fazer developed the bread last summer but had to wait for legislation to be passed in Finland for the launch.

烘焙食品公司法澤的創意部主管尤哈尼·西巴科夫稱，公司去年夏天就研發出了這款麪包，但必須等芬蘭通過相關法律後才能推出。

"It offers consumers a good protein source and also gives them an easy way to familiarise themselves with insect-based food," he said.

他說道：“這款麪包爲消費者提供了一種很好的蛋白質來源，同時也爲他們提供了一種親身熟悉以昆蟲爲材料的食物的簡單方法。”

Finland, in November, joined five other European countries - Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Denmark - in allowing insects to be raised and marketed for food use.

芬蘭於十一月加入了英國、荷蘭、比利時、奧地利和丹麥這五個歐洲國家的行列，允許飼養和銷售可食用昆蟲。

The UN estimated last year that at least 2 billion people eat insects, and more than 1,900 species have been used for food.

聯合國去年估計至少有20億人食用昆蟲，超過1900種昆蟲被用作食物。