IKEA’s Test Kitchen Is Making Meatballs Out Of Mealworms

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Some of you might go to IKEA for the furniture, but let’s face it — the cafeteria is one of the main draws. It doesn’t get much cheaper than a $2 breakfast or a $6 dinner, and the food isn’t even bad. What’s more, at the IKEA “Future-Living Lab” in Copenhagen, Denmark, a group called Space10 is now coming up with all kinds of new dishes that are made from sustainable ingredients.

Space10 recently released five new dishes made from spirulina, beetroot, hydroponic sprouts and mealworms. Yep, mealworms.

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The bug-related items coming out of this innovative IKEA lab include “neatballs,” which are basically IKEA’s Swedish meatballs but with mealworms instead of animal protein. The researchers have also released “Bug Burgers.”

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According to CNBC, insects contain more protein and they’re lower in fat than regular animal protein. A report from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization also says that insects are highly nutritious and a healthy food source of protein, vitamins, fiber and mineral content.

We’re going to have to eat insects at some point, so we might as well get used to it, right? Especially when it means we can indulge in more IKEA meatballs!