Consumers’ acceptance toward whole and processed mealworms: A cross-country study in Belgium, China, Italy, Mexico, and the US

• Daylan Amelia Tzompa-Sosa,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health, Food structure and Function Research Group, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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• Roberta Moruzzo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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• Simone Mancini ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: simone.mancini@unipi.it

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Interdepartmental Research Center Nutrafood “Nutraceuticals and Food for Health”, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8643-507X

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• Joachim Jietse Schouteten,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural Economics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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• Aijun Liu,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation China Center for Food Security Studies, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Jie Li,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Giovanni Sogari

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Food and Drug, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

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