took my existing pumpkin loaf recipe (macros below) and swapped in some cricket to try it. btw i think sodium and calcium are both thrown off by their representation as raw baking powder and baking soda ingredients and i do not expect the net output bread after chemical interactions and baking to contain anything like those levels of either.
i think the above may not include the walnuts on top but i'm too lazy to check, you can add some calories/fat for them.
while marketed as cricket flour, the subtitle here is more accurate. this is actually protein powder. so if you are a normie you might replace some flour with cricket flour to get more protein; if you are an anabolic kitchen dork then you're probably already doing that. so rather than this replacing flour in a normal recipe, i've already done that with lots of protein powder in mine, so crickets are just replacing the protein powder i already used (hydro whey vanilla)
i didn't end up using much. i normally use 73g of my protein, here i switched to 63/10 with 10 chirpy bois. looks like dirt. tastes like dirt, but dirt made of dead crickets. you're not going to drink this straight, and it's not gonna be a good time in protein pancakes or ice creams. but in my big loafy boi, and at this level, i expected i wouldn't even be able to discern it was there.
wet and dry mixed bowls
ready to go in my toaster oven
40m later
orange not green
i can't taste any difference having the loaf by itself, might back to back. it has 7g protein per 10g serving of 45 calories. my thai hydrolized whey is 26g protein at 32g serving and 120 calories.
another version on amazon says 6g protein for 10g serving and 50 calories; it appears to be the cheapest at $2.50/oz. this is much more expensive than even an expensive hydro whey protein. one might argue it has a complimentary amino acid/essential acid profile, maybe, although almost nobody is tracking intake at this level or having it be all that meaningful... from https://www.cricketflours.com/cricket-nutritional-value/
verdict: tolerable, but won't be buying any more
who is this for: people who don't mind spending the money, would like some extra protein in their diet but are probably not all that serious about it, probably who bake or make things they can hide the flavor in more (maybe simplest a sugar/fruit filled smoothie) and probably it's biggest necessary demographic, people that want a more green/sustainable protein source. can't see it really catching on for that without getting significantly cheaper though.
