Future development trend of Tenebrio molitor

It is not only a necessary nutrient for the growth and development of the body, but also an effective substance for the body to regulate metabolic function and enhance disease resistance. In particular, eight essential amino acids that cannot be synthesized in the human body must be obtained directly from food. Nutrition experiments show that without these eight amino acids, diseases caused by nutritional deficiency will occur. Amino acids are also of great use in medicine. At present, various amino acids are added to the infusion during the operation, which enhances the patient's resistance and increases nutrition. With the improvement of people's living standards, people have higher and higher requirements for the nutrients ingested by Liaoning World during the period of 565,438+0-2007.9 (3,465,438+0 in total), especially for the healthy growth of children and adolescents and the rehabilitation of patients with diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to effectively develop amino acid foods, and the amino acid composition of Tenebrio molitor protein is reasonable. It can also be further used for processing health care products and food fortifiers, and can also be used as a medicine for treating amino acid deficiency. There are three general hydrolysis methods: acid hydrolysis, alkali hydrolysis and enzyme hydrolysis, and now most of them use enzyme hydrolysis. The specific technological process includes: selecting fresh Tenebrio molitor, cleaning, baking, pulverizing, degreasing, leaching, adjusting DH, inactivating enzyme, adjusting pH, adding inactivating enzyme, filtering for the second time, sterilizing and cooling to obtain Tenebrio molitor amino acid oral liquid. 4. Enzymatic hydrolysis of Tenebrio molitor to prepare capsules. Firstly, Tenebrio molitor was hydrolyzed by enzyme to decompose protein into amino acids, then some functional raw materials for both medicine and food were added, concentrated, spray-dried (or freeze-dried), and finally made into capsules. 5. Processing of Tenebrio molitor functional drinks Most of the drinks seen in the domestic market a few years ago were simply for quenching thirst. However, there are very few real health care functions. Recently, a certain number of functional drinks have appeared in shopping malls in some big cities, but most of them are artificially added nutrients. We can use the amino acid hydrolysate obtained by direct enzymolysis of Tenebrio molitor to make a nutritious functional beverage containing a variety of amino acids. For acid-free refreshing drinks, Tenebrio molitor protein can be converted into soluble protein by acidification or enzymatic method, and then added to refreshing drinks or carbonated drinks in a certain proportion for strengthening. For fruit juice drinks, isoelectric point soluble protein can be prepared by double enzyme hydrolysis, which can be used as fortifier for soft drinks such as fruit juice, and then mixed with honey, fruit juice and sugar. Its beverage contains a lot of free amino acids, which are easily absorbed by human body, and the contents of vitamins and trace elements are also high. It is a new type of nutritional health drink with high nutritional value, and is suitable for athletes, infants, teenagers and heavy manual workers to drink. In addition, Tenebrio molitor protein can be scientifically matched with other protein contained in various milk drinks according to a certain proportion, so that animal and plant proteins complement each other and the composition of various amino acids is relatively balanced, thus improving the biological value of protein in drinks. 6. Preparation of chitin and chitosan: The skeleton, COLEOPTERA, epidermis and pupa shell of Tenebrio molitor are all made of chitin. After removing protein and fat from Tenebrio molitor, chitin can be prepared and further deacetylated to obtain soluble chitin, namely chitosan. The specific process flow is as follows: acid extraction of Tenebrio molitor, alkali boiling, reduction decoloration, chitin drying, alkali extraction, water washing and chitosan drying. Chitin, chitosan and their derivatives are non-toxic and tasteless, and biodegradable. They can be used as flocculants, fillers, thickeners, decolorants, stabilizers, preservatives, artificial casings and fresh-keeping packaging films in food. 7. At present, the strategic direction of the development of China's food industry is nutritional functional food, with special emphasis on the nutritional and health functions of food. The combination of nutrition and function, through the cultivation, separation, extraction and recombination of modern science and technology, develops functional foods with the functions of preventing diseases, recovering after illness, enhancing immune function and auxiliary curative effect, and functional foods with essential nutritional requirements for human body. At present, the research, development and utilization of Tenebrio molitor are still in the primary stage. Especially its application in food needs further development. In addition to consolidating and developing those traditional processed products, we should also speed up the development of medicinal nourishing health products. Through further in-depth analysis of the nutritional components of Tenebrio molitor, the mechanism of its health care function was clarified, and influential health care functional foods were developed. 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