Participants were provided with frozen 70 gram breakfast muffins and pre-mixed powder packets to prepare smoothies. Participants were asked to consume one muffin package and one smoothie (mixed with water or choice of milk/milk substitutes) daily for 14 days. The amount of intervention food consumed daily contained 25 grams of cricket protein powder.

Participants were provided with a placebo comparator that included frozen 70 gram breakfast muffins and pre-mixed powder packets to prepare smoothies. Participants were asked to consume one muffin package and one smoothie (mixed with water or choice of milk/milk substitutes) daily for 14 days. These foods were formulated to taste and appear similar to the cricket intervention foods but did not consume any cricket powder.

Healthy

Cricket powder was supplied by Entomo farms and consists of roasted and milled whole crickets.

Cricket Protein Powder

Placebo controls consisted of intervention foods (muffin and smoothie powder packet) that were visually and organoleptically similar to cricket-containing foods but contained no cricket powder.

Placebo control

Colorado State University

What's Hopping? Cricket Protein and Human Gut Microbiota

What's Hopping? Edible Cricket (Gryllodes Sigillatus) Consumption and Gut Microbiota in Healthy Adults, a Double-blind, Randomized Crossover Trial

Characterization of microbes in fecal samples using 16s sequencing methodologies.

Self assessment of gastrointestinal symptoms determined by completion of a questionnaire

ELISA analysis of secretory Immunoglobulin A (sIgA) in stool samples

Gas Chromatography determination of fecal short chain fatty acids

Liquid Chromatography determination of fecal secondary and primary bile acids

Luminex panel to examine 13 circulating cytokines (pro and anti-inflammatory)

Colorimetric measure of fecal triglycerides

Tiffany Weir

Associate Professor

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Randomized, placebo controlled crossover dietary intervention

Recipes containing cricket powder were matched for taste, color, and texture to creat placebo intervention foods. All foods were prepared by study personnel and then blinded by a third party individual that was not directly associated with the study.

60 grams protein before, during, after eccentric exercise

60 grams placebo before, during, after eccentric exercise

Muscle Damage

Inflammation

24 g protein before, 12 g during, and 24 g after eccentric exercise

Protein supplement

Placebo

ASU-NCRC Human Performance Lab

Protein and Recovery From Exercise-induced Muscle Damage

Influence of Protein-amino Acid Supplementation on Recovery From Exercise-induced Muscle Damage in NASCAR Pit Crew Athletes

Serum myoglobin and creatine kinase will be measured pre- and post-eccentric exercise, and each morning during three days recovery.

Measured pre- and post-eccentric exercise, and each morning during 3 days of recovery.
Kneeling medicine ball toss.
Vertical jump.
Wingate anaerobic power cycling test.

Measured pre- and post-eccentric exercise, and during each morning during 3 days recovery.
DOMS will be self-reported by the subjects using a 10-point Likert-scale questionnaire (Res Quart Exerc Sport 1993;64:103-107).

Measured from blood samples taken pre- and post-eccentric exercise, and each morning during 3 days recovery.
Serum C-reactive protein (CRP) will be analyzed by the clinical hematology laboratory at the Carolina Medical Center (Charlotte, NC). CRP will be measured using an LX-20 clinical analyzer (Beckman Coulter Electronics, Brea, CA). Total plasma concentrations of interleukin-6 will be determined using an electrochemiluminescence based solid-phase sandwich immunoassay (Meso Scale Discovery, Gaithersburg, MD).

Will be measured from blood samples taken pre- and post-eccentric exercise, and each morning during 3 days of recovery.
Granulocyte and monocyte phagocytosis (G-PHAG, M-PHAG), and oxidative burst activity (G-OBA, M-OBA) will be assayed at the immunology laboratory at UNC-Charlotte (Dr. Didier Dreau).

Appalachian State University

Herbalife International of America, Inc.

HIV Infections

Cancer, Second Primary

175g probiotic yogurt / day 25% RDA for each nutrient

Probiotic Yogurt B: with various micronutrients

175g probiotic yogurt/ day 25% RDA for each nutrient

Probiotic Yogurt A: Kaiser micronutrients

175g yogurt/ day 25% RDA for each nutrient

pantothenic acid/uždegimas

What's Hopping? Cricket Protein and Human Gut Microbiota

Protein and Recovery From Exercise-induced Muscle Damage

Micronutrient Supplemented Probiotic Yogurt for HIV/AIDS and Other Immunodeficiencies

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