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Manufactures Flour Cookie Worm

M ezclando a little butter, cocoa, eggs, sugar, milk, nuts and a touch of magic: 150 grams of flour per 40 grams of earthworm flour was obtained equivalent to eating biscuits 50 grams of meat each.
"We want to remove the myth that the worm is dirty and disgusting," said Iliana Méndez Barajas Chronicle, a student at National Polytechnic Institute, who heads the project earthworm cookies called "lombretinas"

These unique cookies "made from worm-are high in protein, Iliana Méndez explains and clarifies that no is a meal replacement, but a supplement that can reduce chronic malnutrition suffered 1.5 million children in the country.
According to the annual report on the World's Children 2006, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), says that 60 percent of Mexican children living in poverty.

Each "lombretina", according to estimates by experts, is to eat about 50 grams of beef, so if it is distributed in marginal areas may be a "relief to many families who need good food."

These "earthworms" are unsightly sight, but these "animals", Lumbricus terrestris, are considered some of the cleanest in the world beings, justifies Iliana Méndez Barajas, Center for Science and Technology Studies Miguel Othon de Mendizabal of the IPN. Details
the "meat" of the worm is transformed, through a drying system, and you get a high-protein meal that contains no toxins and cholesterol.

The project to make "lombretinas" began five years ago after studying the worms became aware of the high protein content that was in their thin bodies.

PROCEDURE. The specialist explained that hundreds of earthworms are collected in the green areas of the IPN to introduce them in tubs with clean soil and debris-free glass-to feed for 15 days with fruit and vegetables, never with meat because this will cause death.

The "animals" ground out to eat every other day for food and thereby cleanse your body of all impurities, the researcher noted.

After 15 days, the worms are introduced into a saline solution which kills them, then they are dried in sunlight and then are ground to achieve a thin gray flour. Iliana

adds that to achieve a kilo of worm meal with biscuits are done, you need at least a thousand worms to make "lombretinas" in different shapes like stars or moons.

The "lombretinas" have been widely accepted in national competitions and specialist announced that because of his success in the future thinking in children's diets include the government provides free or add the flour tortilla worm to a food Mexicans basic made with cornmeal.

Researchers, who up until now thought of cockroaches, they say that the production of biscuits is just the beginning of a range of foods from the worm that could help solve the problem of poverty.
In almost 30 years of investigation, Mexican biologist, has identified 681 thousand in the world edible insect species, 505 are native to Mexico.
also been found in 272 species healing properties such as certain ants (polurachis vicina roger), useful to treat arthritis.