芬兰一家食品公司推出蟋蟀粉面包

A Finnish bakery has launched what it claims to be the world's first insect-based bread to be offered to consumers in stores.

近日，芬兰一家烘焙食品公司推出号称是世界上首款以昆虫为材料、在店铺面向消费者销售的面包。

The bread, made using flour ground from dried crickets as well as wheat flour and seeds, has more protein than normal wheat bread.

这款面包由干蟋蟀磨成的粉末、小麦粉和种子制成，比一般小麦面包含有更多蛋白质。

Each loaf contains about 70 crickets and costs 3.99 euros, compared with 2-3 euros for a regular wheat loaf.

每条面包约含70只蟋蟀，售价3.99欧元。相较之下，一般小麦面包的售价为每条2-3欧元。

Juhani Sibakov, the head of innovation at the bakery firm Fazer, said that Fazer developed the bread last summer but had to wait for legislation to be passed in Finland for the launch.

烘焙食品公司法泽的创意部主管尤哈尼·西巴科夫称，公司去年夏天就研发出了这款面包，但必须等芬兰通过相关法律后才能推出。

"It offers consumers a good protein source and also gives them an easy way to familiarise themselves with insect-based food," he said.

他说道：“这款面包为消费者提供了一种很好的蛋白质来源，同时也为他们提供了一种亲身熟悉以昆虫为材料的食物的简单方法。”

Finland, in November, joined five other European countries - Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Denmark - in allowing insects to be raised and marketed for food use.

芬兰于十一月加入了英国、荷兰、比利时、奥地利和丹麦这五个欧洲国家的行列，允许饲养和销售可食用昆虫。

The UN estimated last year that at least 2 billion people eat insects, and more than 1,900 species have been used for food.

联合国去年估计至少有20亿人食用昆虫，超过1900种昆虫被用作食物。