Welcome to InsectInspect.app - Insects in Food,
the best insect warning app on the market
Reads the list of ingredients and offers the highest hit rates when detecting
insects in food
How do you benefit from this app?
Which insects may be added to which foods?
InsectInspect.app is the best insect warning app. With this app, you can check your favourite foods to see whether the manufacturer has added insects in the form of powder, paste or other additives. Unlike comparable apps, this app offers the highest hit rates because it can read the ingredient lists and does not rely on the EAN code being stored in an official database.
The app shows whether there are insect ingredients in cereals, baked goods, chocolate, crisps, biscuits, pasta, baking mixes, alternative dairy products, etc., for example.
In addition, the app also detects food additives from insects that are permitted for use in the EU, e.g. as coatings or colourings. Examples of this are
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Secretions of the female lacquer scale insect with the EU number E904, which are used as shellac to make chocolate dragees or chewing gum shiny.
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The cochineal or scarlet scale insect with the EU no. E120, whose secretions are used as a red food colouring.
With Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/882 of 1 June 2021, the EU Commission approved the placing on the market of dried mealworms (mealworm larvae) as a novel food. In 2023/5 of January 2023, the European Union authorised the addition of insect powder to certain foods such as cereals. The novel foods have so far been derived from four insects:
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Mealybug or yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor), in the larval stage, whole dried insect or processed as a powder (since June 2021).
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Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria), frozen, dried (without wings, without legs) or processed in powder form (since November 2021).
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House cricket (Acheta domesticus), frozen whole, freeze-dried, processed in powder form (since February 2022). Since January 2023 also as an additive in the form of defatted powder.
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Buffalo worm/cereal mould beetle (Alphitobius diaperinus), frozen, paste-like, or processed as powder (January 2023).
Its powder may be added to muesli bars, muesli and breakfast cereals, porridge, baking mixes, bread and rolls, pasta, biscuits, crackers, crisps, peanut flips, chocolate, meat and meat substitutes and alternative dairy products.
For vegans, vegetarians, consumers who struggle with food intolerances and allergies, but also anyone who doesn't want bugs mixed in with their food, this app offers great benefits when shopping.