Wageningen Livestock Research
Research on insects as food, feed and non-food.
Technical expertise
Technical expertise on circular agriculture, bioconversion of waste streams, insect rearing, insect processing, insects as feed, food and non-food.
Which type of insects are you breeding/processing? | |
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Black soldier fly | |
Cricket | |
Housefly | |
Mealworm |
Application | |
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Algae / aquatic plants | |
Dairy, eggs | |
Fruit, vegetables, pulses | |
Grains, seeds, nuts | |
Independent work/lab/production space for third party | |
Insects | |
Meat, poultry, seafood | |
Oils and fats | |
Value creation of by- and side-streams |
Processing | |
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(Ingredient)Cleaning | |
(Insect)Farming/rearing | |
(IQF-)Freezing | |
Battering | |
Cooking/(re-)hydration | |
Cutting | |
Defatting | |
Drying | |
Extrusion | |
Fermentation | |
Filtration/sieving | |
Fractionation - Dry | |
Fractionation - Wet | |
Frying | |
Heating/Baking | |
Marination/Flavouring | |
Milling/Granulation | |
Mixing/Blending | |
Preservation/heating/HPP | |
Shaping/Compacting | |
Structuring |
Quality certification | |
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ISO9001 |
Allergens | |
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Celery | |
Crustaceans | May Contain |
Eggs | May Contain |
Fish | May Contain |
Gluten | |
Lupin | May Contain |
Milk | May Contain |
Molluscs | |
Mustard | |
Nuts | |
Peanuts | |
Sesame | |
Soy | May Contain |
Sulphur dioxide |

- Type of organisation
- Contract research / Contract manufacturing
- Innovation field
- Circular Agrifood
- Protein Shift
- Development Support
- Yes, we always co-develop new products and processes
- Position in the value chain
- Primary product (B2B/B2C)
- Ingredients (B2B)
- Semi-finished (B2B)
- Finished product (B2C)
- Production scale
- Research (advanced equipment, labfacility, etc.)
- Scale up: Test facility / kitchen