What are the medicinal values ​​of barley worms?

Speaking of mealworms, I believe many people are very unfamiliar with them. In life, mealworms are a common insect. Many people don’t know much about mealworms. Mealworms are a kind of insect that lives in food. Mealworms have very strong vitality and can survive anywhere. Mealworms contain a lot of nutrients and can be used as medicine. So what are the medicinal values ​​of mealworms? Let’s take a look at it together below.

The larvae of mealworms contain 51% protein, 29% fat, and a variety of sugars, amino acids, vitamins, hormones, enzymes and minerals such as phosphorus, iron, potassium, sodium, calcium, etc. The nutritional value far exceeds that of insect baits such as maggots, earthworms, mealworms and crickets. In addition, its skin is soft and easy to digest, and it has good palatability. Mealworms are an excellent bait for breeding various rare animals such as arowana or ornamental fish, ornamental birds, spiny-chested frogs, turtles, snakes, etc. With the rapid development of my country's economy and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, the demand for rare livestock and poultry and special aquatic animals will inevitably increase. Nowadays, the development of the breeding industry is restricted to a great extent due to the severe shortage of protein feed resources. Therefore, the development and utilization of mealworms will inevitably become the main direction for solving the source of protein feed in the future. It can continuously provide high-grade protein feed directly for animals, and can also provide protein food for humans.

Mealworms are the most ideal feed insects for artificial breeding. The larvae of the mealworm contain 51% crude protein, 29% fat, as well as a variety of sugars, amino acids, vitamins, hormones, enzymes and minerals such as phosphorus, iron, potassium, sodium, calcium, etc. Due to its high nutritional value, rich nutrition, easy digestion and good palatability, meal worms have gradually begun to be used in breeding frogs, turtles, scorpions, centipedes, snakes, high-quality fish, ornamental birds, medicinal animals, precious fur animals and rare livestock and poultry. Because mealworms are large and the number of them raised in society is small, they were mainly used as special bait for high-end ornamental fish such as precious golden arowana and silver arowana in the early days. Professional fish farms and high-end pet breeding farms overseas all use mealworms as an important live bait, which will gradually develop into a trend comparable to or even replacing mealworms, crickets, locusts, and earthworms. The diet of mealworms is very diverse, similar to that of yellow mealworms. They can eat wheat bran, various fruit and vegetable residues, artificial feed, and animal carcasses. At present, artificial breeding uses wheat bran as the main ingredient, with the addition of various fruit and vegetable residues, and supplemented with MSG, sugar, vitamins, fish meal, bone meal, etc.; water is mainly obtained through the intake of root and tuber vegetables, thick-leaved vegetables and melon and fruit peels. The feed source is wide, the breeding cost is low, and its yield is 5 times that of mealworms. At the same time, wheat bran and other materials are the habitats of mealworms.

Mealworms are the ideal main insect feed for valuable pets, especially small birds. It is rich in chitosan and a small amount of astaxanthin, and its value has doubled because it has become a high-end food for aristocratic pets. Chitin makes the scales on the surface of fish harder and more lustrous, and the color of the fish body is particularly gorgeous. It has a good color-enhancing effect on ornamental birds. Astaxanthin is a type of carotenoid. After this pigment combines with protein, it will change color to yellow, orange, purple, green, blue, etc. depending on the different proteins. Therefore, the color of the arowana will change to yellow, orange, purple, green, blue, etc. after eating it. Astaxanthin makes the consumed astaxanthin reflected on the feathers, so the red color of the red indigo bunting we breed will become redder and redder, making the bird's body color redder or darker, which is the key to improving quality and value.

The above article is a detailed introduction to the medicinal value of mealworms. Mealworms have high medicinal value and are rich in nutritional value. They can be used as medicine, can prevent some physical diseases, and are of great benefit to the body. Mealworms are rich in nutrients and can supplement the trace elements and a large amount of calcium needed by the human body. Mealworms can be cooked and have a unique taste and are rich in nutrients.