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IN-OIL
insect oil
What?
In-Oil is an oil made from buffalo worm and house cricket. This unique blend of insect fats utilizes the leftover oils from insect flour extraction to create a nutritious, delicate and innovative oil. In-Oil can be used for cooking, baking and finishing meals, just as traditional plant oils or instead of other animal fats like butter.
How?
Insects are grown in highly automated, vertical rearing systems, they need very little space and manpower. This so called entomofarming (Ancient Greek: entomon = insect) uses less land, water and energy and produce less CO² equivalent than any other animal species reared for human consumption.
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A food safe method to achieve fractionation, is the aqueous extraction method, which is commonly used for insect protein extraction. During that process, insects are mixed with water, blended, sometimes sonicated and then sieved to remove larger pieces. Finally, centrifugation separates the water- from the fat-soluble compounds. Once insect oil is produced in the insect farm, it will be transported to the In-Oil facility, where we bottle it up, ready to hit the stores!
Why?
Sustainable agriculture needs to consider current and future societal needs for food and ecosystem services and for healthy while being commercially competitive. Insects have the ability to convert organic waste and industrial side streams into high value protein.
Choosing waste products of other insect processings - namely by receiving the fatty content of crickets and mealworms that would normally be disposed by other insect-product-companies, will then be used for our production.
Insects in general have a highly beneficial nutritional profile, and are therefore a great potential source of important nutrients for a balanced diet. Products already purchasable on the market come normally in the form of protein bars, burgers or powders. This brings one big disadvantage: the texture or appearance often still hints to the origin of the food, insects, and therefore carries a certain „ick-factor“ for the potential consumer, decreasing consumer acceptance of insect products. What they lack, and what WE want to fill the gap with our product: is the way we present insects. Combining: environmental friendly (friendlier) production, with nutritional ingredients (buffalo worms and crickets). In the form of oil, it can be used on a daily basis, and does not immediately remind the consumer of its ingredients, reducing the ick-factor.
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We want to IN-novate. We want to IN-itiate change. We want to IN-spire. IN-OIL.
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