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Cricket, lovely cricket: Wicklow firm signs agreement to provide insect protein in Europe

Willows Ingredients, a distributor of raw materials for the food, healthcare and sports industries, is meeting demand from customers in animal nutrition and nutraceuticals

David Scrivens, managing director and founder of Willows Ingredients: ‘As we have grown, we have entered new markets and new products.’ Picture: Fergal Phillips

Wicklow-based Willows Ingredients, a distributor of raw materials for the food, healthcare, sports and animal nutrition industries, has signed a distribution agreement with Cricket One Asia to provide cricket protein in the European markets.

CricketOne Asia has gained EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) Novel Food Accreditation and is the only non-EU supplier of the cricket protein selling into Europe.

“Eating crickets is not new. Crickets have been the regular diet of more than two billion ...