aspire food group

These entrepreneurs want you to eat bugs

webfull — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:17:35 +0000

The edible bug business is expected to grow to a whopping $720 million by 2024.

Looking to meet demand is the Aspire Food Group, co-founded by former MBA student Mohammed Ashour.

Next year, Aspire will scale its 25,000-square-foot operation into an adjacent building that is ten times larger.

A great milestone for Aspire Food Group

webfull — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:16:52 +0000

Aspire Food Group, a manufacturer of food products made from crickets co-founded by former MBA student Mohammed Ashour, announced that it has acquired Exo, a producer of protein bars made from crickets.

According to Ashour, “There was such a great meeting of minds it very quickly evolved into Aspire acquiring Exo. The synergy and logic just make sense”.

The future of food can be found in insects

webfull — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 21:31:56 +0000

Restauranteurs and entrepreneurs around the world are heeding the call for more sustainable food sources. Among them is the Aspire Food Group, which has recently doubled its production of crickets for human consumption at its Texas farm.

And they are not the only ones to recognise the value of insects as food. The edible bug business is booming, with a global market of $33 million in 2015, according to the research firm Global Market Insights, which expects it to grow 40 percent by 2023.

Crickets: a healthy food choice that’s tasty too

webfull — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 21:43:50 +0000

Former MBA student Mohammed Ashour and the Aspire Group have come a long way since winning the Hult Prize in 2013 for their vision of creating a high-tech cricket farm to produce foods for human consumption.

The Aspire Group has since erected a 25,000-square-foot building in Austin, Texas, which produces roughly 22 million crickets every month.

Despite great headway, Ashour recounts his plans for further expansion, along with the nutritional benefits of crickets.

Are crickets the meal staple of the future?

webfull — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 20:03:25 +0000

Mohammed Ashour, co-founder of Aspire Food Group, received the Highly Commended Award at FoodBytes, a startup competition that supports innovative ideas in food and agriculture. The Aspire Group transforms crickets into high-protein powder and snacks, and are looking to expand their market into the U.S., where the aversion to insects as food seems to prevail.

Entomophagy: Can you swallow this food trend?

webfull — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 18:55:51 +0000

Would you rather miss a PB by a single second, or eat a grasshopper? Runners who are competitive enough would probably strongly consider the grasshopper in this moment… being grossed out is temporary, but pride is forever, right? Eating insects isn’t new. Including bugs are a main food ingredient (the technical term is entomophagy) is however becoming more trendy.

A handful of US companies are trying to grow insects people will want to eat

webfull — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:47:06 +0000

It’s hard to hear anything over the chirping. Cardboard boxes filled with egg cartons and sheets of plastic buzz with thousands of young-adult crickets calling out to one another to mate.
... Gabriel Mott, the chief operating officer of Aspire Food Group, yells above the noise and points inside one of the boxes. “You see the one with the wings?” he asks. “That’s a female. They get their wings at their final stage.”

Ottawa researcher hopes bugs can address global food insecurity

webfull — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:32:54 +0000

Gabe Mott is spending the summer in Mexico, where the company he's part of is trying to figure out how to industrialize the production of insects — or micro-livestock — to address global food insecurity.

Desautels alumnus bets on bugs to solve world hunger

webfull — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:59:42 +0000

As the world’s population increases, the pressure to find an ecologically-feasible protein source is mounting, so former MBA student Mohammed Ashour of the Aspire Food Group is bringing a foreign concept to the US: eating insects. Long a staple protein source in many countries, bugs offer a bigger protein hit, and require fewer resources than traditional livestock does.

5 Compelling Reasons You Should Eat More Insects (Especially Crickets)

webfull — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 18:59:38 +0000

The very thought of eating insects grosses people out. The image of a creepy, crawly, bug working its way down your windpipe doesn’t exactly conjure up feelings of the contentment we feel with other foods.

But why not? How is it that a cow, pig, chicken, or fish seem more appetizing than other creatures? In other cultures who don’t have the “luxury” of consuming conventional sources of protein regularly, insects are a perfectly legitimate choice. In fact, 2 billion people worldwide eat insects regularly as a food source, and North America is JUST starting to catch on.

Dec. 5: 2015 Hult Prize @ ��ϲ��

webfull — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:05:36 +0000

On Saturday, Dec. 5, ��ϲ�� is hosting Hult Prize @ ��ϲ�� — the university-level competition for the prestigious Hult Prize.

Peneliti Kanada Berharap Serangga dapat Atasi Masalah Pangan Global

webfull — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:30:10 +0000

Berkurangnya pasokan makanan dunia sempat membuat PBB tahun lalu memromosikan hidangan dari seranggayang kaya nutrisi, tinggi protein, rendah lemak dan mudah didapatkan. Selain itu dalam konferensi 'Serangga sebagai Pangan Dunia' baru-baru ini, para ahli pangan juga mensosialisasi serangga sebagai pangan ramah lingkungan.

Will Americans Ever Eat Insects for Food? Startups Say, ‘Yes, We Will!’

webfull — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:43:27 +0000

Aspire co-founder and COO Gabe Mott is a neuroscientist who never imagined he would be a cricket farmer. He is also a vegetarian, but he makes an exception for insects because he believes they are ethical, sustainable, and “a reasonable distribution of food.”

He absolutely gushed over the succulent calamari-texture and sweetness of the palm weevil his company supports in Ghana.

Bugs on the menu in Ghana as palm weevil protein hits the pan

webfull — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 15:12:31 +0000

Kyei Manu is one of four people farming palm weevil larvae in Donyina village under a scheme run by Aspire Food Group, which operates Ghana’s first commercial insect farm. Aspire wants to bring insects from the culinary margins to the mainstream to address food shortages, as well as to boost people’s iron intake.

... Aspire was founded by students from ��ϲ�� University in 2013, and launched the Ghana project last year.

Are Bugs the Secret Weapon to Fighting World Hunger?

webfull — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:45:11 +0000

Mohammed Ashour has an idea he is certain will help the world’s millions of impoverished, ill-nourished slum dwellers. It’s simple: Feed them bugs.