Figure 1.
The mealworm production system.
Flows entering the company are on the left, centrally the production steps are shown and flows exiting the system are on the right. For flow quantities see Table 1.
Table 1.
Resource use per year and environmental impact.
Table 2.
Environmental impact of inputs in a mealworm production system.
Figure 2.
Environmental impact of mealworms compared to other animal products.
Global warming potential due to the production of one kg of edible protein. Results from this study depicted in green. Minimum (blue) and maximum (red) literature data is adapted from de Vries & de Boer (2010).
Figure 3.
Environmental impact of mealworms compared to other animal products.
Energy use due to the production of one kg of edible protein. Results from this study depicted in green. Minimum (blue) and maximum (red) literature data is adapted from de Vries & de Boer (2010).
Figure 4.
Environmental impact of mealworms compared to other animal products.
Land use due to the production of one kg of edible protein. Results from this study depicted in green. Minimum (blue) and maximum (red) literature data is adapted from de Vries & de Boer (2010).