Product Description

A great success at the Licorice Candy and Salty Licorice Candy Festivals 2018 and 2019 in Helsinki!

Finland, crickets, and salty licorice (salmiak). Bug Bazaar could not resist the temptation to put them together and make this strange and exotic delicacy which only can be invented in Finland!

A crunchy cricket snack with salty licorice (salmiak) was invented by Bug Bazaar for the Finnish Kosmos Festival 2018 and tested at Licorice and Salty Licorice Festival 2018 in Helsinki. Salmiakkisirkka became a bestseller on Salty Licorice Festival 2019 in Helsinki and it was invited to the main scene of the biggest Salty Licorice Festival of the world in Stockholm in 2020. 

This product is officially sold as a decoration with VAT 24% instead of the Finnish food VAT 14%.

Edible insects are rich in nutrients. The house insects contain plenty of protein, iron, creatine, calcium, magnesium, zinc in addition to which there is the fish’s type of omega fatty acid division between the omega-3 and omega-6.

Did you know that in grasshoppers, there are five times more antioxidants than in oranges?

With its high B12 vitamin content and its healthy nourishment composition, insect food is highly recommended for balancing otherwise mostly vegetarian diets.

The chitin to be obtained from the insect food and its breakdown products, chitooligosaccharides, and chitosan operate like fiber and lower the cholesterol of the blood. They also have antioxidative, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer effects. It has also been stated that chitin and its breakdown products will prevent the growth of most harmful intestines bacteria.

As insects lose about 75% of their weight as the water evaporates during the roasting/drying, they are a real power food.

Our crickets are 100% traceable and they are grown delicious in the natural heat of Thailand, the home of the most delicious insect food in the world.

Nature Loves Insectivores!

Insect food can help us in keeping the food system within environmental limits. To get a kilogram of beef one needs 12 times more feed, 15 times more room, and 22 000 times more water than growing a kilogram of insects. The insects offer a new lasting, ethical and delicious way to produce the proteins which are necessary to all of us.

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A NOTE for purchases weighing one kilogram or more

Shipping costs for international orders are high and we want to offer the best possible service to our customers. In case your order weighs one kilogram or more, you should directly contact our customer service. In that way, we can manually tailor your order and plan the best shipping method for your needs!

Our crickets are not the cheapest because we only accept the best!

After an extensive comparison, we found a top certified and socially responsible cricket farmer whose crickets are the most delicious on the market.

Product Description

Ingredients: Roasted crickets (acheta domesticus), licorice extract, sugar, ammonium chloride, rice flour, salt.

Farmed in Thailand. Packed and flavored in Finland.

Carbon Footprint

Our crickets come by sea from Thailand where they grow in tropical 35 degrees Celsius heat which is optimal for crickets. As a result, the carbon footprint of our crickets is much smaller than with insects produced in the heated production facilities of the Northern Hemisphere.

Certificates

Our crickets have FDA, GMP, GAP, and HACCP.

Social Responsibility

Our cricket farmer follows The Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) is a leading business-driven initiative for companies committed to improving working conditions in the global supply chain.

Nutritional Information (per 100g)

• Energy 1751 kJ / 407 kcal
• Fat 14,4 g of which Saturates 5.2 g
• Carbohydrate 16,6 g of which Sugars 7.6 g
• Fiber 1.4 g
• Protein 54,3 g
• Salt 2.2 g
• 2,3% ammonium chloride

WARNING!

Insects may cause an allergic reaction to those who are allergic to, for example, dust mites or shrimp. Food allergens are proteins. Sensitization to insect proteins is possible, just like to any other food proteins. The proteins that insects contain are similar to the proteins of e.g., crustaceans and mollusks. Thus, persons who are allergic to prawns, for example, may have an allergic reaction from insect food. Insects may contain traces of gluten.

Svenska

Ingrediens: Hussyrsor (95%; acheta domesticus), lakritsextrakt, socker, ammoniumklorid 2,3%, rismjöl, salt. Näringsinnehåll (100g): Energi 1751 kJ/407 kcal (, varav från fett 132 kcal), fett 14,4 g (, varav mättade fettsyror 5,2 g), kolhydrater 16,6 g (, varav sockerarter 7,6 g), fiber 1,4 g, protein 54,3 g, salt 2,2g, ammoniumklorid 2,3%. Ursprungsland: Thailand. Förpacknings- och kryddningsland: Finland. Importör: Bugisphere Oy, Fredrikinkatu 64 B 22, 00100 HELSINKI.

OBS!

Man kan vara allergisk mot insektmat. Matallergenerna är proteiner. Man kan bli allergisk mot insektproteiner på samma sätt som mot andra proteiner i maten. Proteinerna i insekter är jämförbara med proteinerna i t.ex. skaldjur och blötdjur. Därför kan en person som är allergisk mot t.ex. räkor få en allergisk reaktion av insektmat.

References to health-related statements above

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