Do insects as feed ingredient affect meat quality?

The development of sustainable feed ingredients for monogastric livestock is nowadays considering insect meals and oils to replace or supplement conventional feedstuffs. Although the regulation on use products differs among countries resulting in restrictions diets meat producers, global research exploring all strengths weaknesses their inclusion. Therefore, whereas scientific literature has extensively studied both relationship between farming systems safety (potential health risks), dietary insects nutritional value production performance farm animals (fish, poultry, swine, rabbit), insect-containing diet quality only recently been considered. present review therefore aims collect results studies that have related some species, such as black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens), yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) silkworm (Bombyx mori), physicochemical sensory traits swine rabbit meat. variable most affected by inclusion fatty acid (FA) profile, which, well known, monogastrics tends reflect diet. always originated meats with a more saturated FA monounsaturated unsaturated profile rich valuable omega-3 FA, but rarely changed variables,