Our Pure Canadian Cricket Powder is farmed and processed in Ontario, Canada.

Yes! Crickets are 100% safe to consume. Humans have been eating crickets for millennia, and now that crickets are farmed specifically for human consumption in Canada, all Canadian laws and regulations applicable to meat apply to cricket farming and processing.

Cricket powder is said to be a nutritional substitute to meat because it contains all the same nutrients (but is much more sustainable!). It’s a complete protein with all 9 essential amino acids and contains far more vitamin B12 than conventional meat like chicken, beef and even fish.

Our Canadian cricket powder has a much lower environmental footprint than livestock and poultry because crickets convert plant-based feed into complete protein much more efficiently. For the same amount of protein, crickets require a small fraction of the feed, water, and land compared to farm animals—and are consumed in their entirety, with no waste. Farming crickets produces far less greenhouse gasses.

Crickets are in the crustaceans family, meaning they have a similar nutritional profile to shrimp, crab, lobster, etc., which are very low in saturated fat––especially compared to other animal proteins––and, therefore, unlikely to increase blood cholesterol levels. In fact modern nutrition research does not find a causal link between dietary cholesterol and LDL blood cholesterol.