The DOI matches its Crossref record; 90 of the 90 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Animals Fed Insect-Based Diets: State-of-the-Art on Digestibility, Performance and Product Quality
Open accessAbstract
In 2018, the industrial compound feed production throughout the world was 1.103 metric billion tons, which was an increase of 3% compared to 2017. In order to meet the needs of the increasing population, a further increment in compound feed production is necessary. Conventional protein sources are no longer suitable to completely satisfy the increment of feed production in a sustainable way. Insects are one of the most promising options, due to their valuable nutritional features. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art of research on the use of insect meals and oils in aquatic, avian and other animal species diets, focusing mainly on the effects on digestibility, performance and product quality. In general, insect-derived product digestibility is affected by the insect species, the inclusion levels and by the process. Sometimes, the presence of chitin can lead to a decrease in nutrient digestibility. The same considerations are true for animal performance. As far as product quality is concerned, a dramatic effect of insect products has been recorded for the fatty acid profile, with a decrease in valuable n3 fatty acids. Sensory analyses have reported no or slight differences. Insect-derived products seem to be a good alternative to conventional feed sources and can make an important contribution to the sustainable development of the livestock industry.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Nijdam, D., Rood, T., & Westhoek, H. (2012) · Food Policy · doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.08.002 · Cited by 734
Meneguz, M., Schiavone, A., Gai, F., Dama, A., Lussiana, C., Renna, M., & Gasco, L. (2018) · Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture · doi:10.1002/jsfa.9127 · Cited by 532
Self-citationBelghit, I., Liland, N. S., Gjesdal, P., Biancarosa, I., Menchetti, E., Li, Y., Waagbø, R., Krogdahl, Å., & Lock, E.-J. (2019) · Aquaculture · doi:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.12.032 · Cited by 463
Bioconversion of organic wastes into biodiesel and animal feed via insect farming
Surendra, K. C., Olivier, R., Tomberlin, J. K., Jha, R., & Khanal, S. K. (2016) · Renewable Energy · doi:10.1016/j.renene.2016.03.022 · Cited by 452
De Marco, M., Martínez, S., Hernandez, F., Madrid, J., Gai, F., Rotolo, L., Belforti, M., Bergero, D., Katz, H., Dabbou, S., et al. (2015) · Animal Feed Science and Technology · doi:10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2015.08.006 · Cited by 449
Self-citationRenna, M., Schiavone, A., Gai, F., Dabbou, S., Lussiana, C., Malfatto, V., Prearo, M., Capucchio, M. T., Biasato, I., Biasibetti, E., et al. (2017) · Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology · doi:10.1186/s40104-017-0191-3 · Cited by 449
Self-citationSmetana, S., Schmitt, E., & Mathys, A. (2019) · Resources, Conservation and Recycling · doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.01.042 · Cited by 424
Magalhães, R., Sánchez-López, A., Leal, R. S., Martínez-Llorens, S., Oliva-Teles, A., & Peres, H. (2017) · Aquaculture · doi:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.04.021 · Cited by 408
Schiavone, A., De Marco, M., Martínez, S., Dabbou, S., Renna, M., Madrid, J., Hernandez, F., Rotolo, L., Costa, P., Gai, F., et al. (2017) · Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology · doi:10.1186/s40104-017-0181-5 · Cited by 383
Self-citationRamos-Elorduy, J., González, E. A., Hernández, A. R., & Pino, J. M. (2002) · Journal of Economic Entomology · doi:10.1603/0022-0493-95.1.214 · Cited by 373
Cited by
Kaya, C., Generalovic, T. N., Ståhls, G., Hauser, M., Samayoa, A. C., Nunes-Silva, C. G., Roxburgh, H., Wohlfahrt, J., Ewusie, E. A., Kenis, M., et al. (2021) · BMC Biology · doi:10.1186/s12915-021-01029-w · Cited by 149
Self-citationRavi, H. K., Degrou, A., Costil, J., Trespeuch, C., Chemat, F., & Vian, M. A. (2020) · Processes · doi:10.3390/pr8070857 · Cited by 144
Dabbou, S., Ferrocino, I., Gasco, L., Schiavone, A., Trocino, A., Xiccato, G., Barroeta, A. C., Maione, S., Soglia, D., Biasato, I., et al. (2020) · Animals · doi:10.3390/ani10081292 · Cited by 71
Self-citationExploring the potential of crossbreeding to enhance black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) production
Meyermans, R., Broeckx, L., Mondelaers, J., Gorssen, W., Frooninckx, L., Janssens, S., Van Miert, S., & Buys, N. (2025) · Journal of Insects as Food and Feed · doi:10.1163/23524588-00001391 · Cited by 6
Metadata
- Authors
- Gasco, L., Biasato, I., Dabbou, S., Schiavone, A., & Gai, F.
- Venue
- Animals
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2019-04-16
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 170
- ISSN
- 2076-2615 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2935869529
- Cited by
- 267
- References
- 90
- FWCI
- 23.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Animals Fed Insect-Based Diets: State-of-the-Art on Digestibility, Performance and Product Quality. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.3390/ani9040170
- The paper
- Gasco, L., Biasato, I., Dabbou, S., Schiavone, A., & Gai, F. (2019). Animals Fed Insect-Based Diets: State-of-the-Art on Digestibility, Performance and Product Quality. Animals. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9040170
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
