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Protein for a better world
Aketta crickets are an excellent source of protein and other nutrients . And they have a much smaller impact on the environment than traditional livestock , so you can feel good while doing the planet good .
Why the name “ Aketta ”? We don ’ t eat “ cow ” or “ pig ,” we eat beef and pork . Aspire wants customers to associate crickets with the word Aketta in the same way . Crickets are a sustainable , farmed food source , not a pest or something plucked from the wild . Aspire realizes that if insects are going to be a consumer product , we need a new vocabulary to normalize the idea .
The crickets are raised at a facility in Austin , Texas . They eat USDA-certified organic feed and live in a clean , healthy environment . They ’ re processed in a gluten-free , certified organic kitchen , then packaged up and sent out to customers to enjoy .
Aketta :
12 %
DAILY VALUE OF
Fiber
NON- GMO
40 %
DAILY VALUE OF
Protein
Gluten- Free
9 Amino Acids
30g roasted crickets / whole or flour
VS 30g beef
Nutritional benefit Environmental benefit
Protein
20g
8g
Land
Beef uses 38x more land
Calcium
43mg
Iron 2.3 mg
3.6mg
1mg
Beef uses 23x more water
Water
Beef uses 12x more feed
Feed
Beef produces 1,815x more greenhouse gases
Greenhouse gases
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