Also, because you asked about the quantum of protein. These bugs are tiny, so you aren’t going to get any significant amount of protein without harvesting a ton of these .. and by the time you harvest that many, they’ll have ruined several times their weight in rice or flour.
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 23 October 2025 at 7:27 PM To: Huda Masood <[email protected]> Cc: Intelligent conversation <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Silk] Worms in my flour It is edible and won’t kill you. It will taste disgusting though, besides the quite understandable visual and sensory impact Personal experience of the taste from cooking rice that had a weevil or two turn up in it even after I thought I’d washed it thoroughly. What can I say, I was much thriftier then when I was younger and living alone. --srs ________________________________ From: Huda Masood <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2025 6:47:46 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> Cc: Intelligent conversation <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Silk] Worms in my flour Let’s standardise the test parameter - this would be an augmented source of nutrition? I wonder about areas of famine and unrest and I wonder what degrades from a nutritional standpoint and what gets enhanced. I remember an anecdote about sailors eating their bread in the dark so they wouldn’t have to see the worms. Huda Masood +91 9886796967 On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 at 15:06, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Patrick O’Brian’s lesser of two weevils comes to mind. They’re protein and safe to eat once cooked but they taste disgustingly bitter. --srs ________________________________ From: Silklist <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Huda Masood via Silklist <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2025 6:26:25 PM To: Intelligent conversation <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Huda Masood <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [Silk] Worms in my flour Folks, I’ve been wondering. Would the wriggly larva in my flour actually enhance the nutritional value of the flour as a whole? The whole conversion of starch to Protein thought process. What happens when the larva poops? Huda Masood +91 9886796967
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