Beetles, ants, wasps, or flies? An ethnobiological study of edible insects among the Awajún Amerindians in Amazonas, Peru

Table 3 Energy value and macronutrient composition of different insect taxa

Insect taxa	Energy [Kcal]*	Protein [g]*	Total fat [g]*	CH^⁑ [g]*
Order
Coleoptera	283-653 [49]	50.41 (23–66) [50]	25.57 (14–36) [50]	2.81 [50]
Hymenoptera	380–561 [49]	47.81 (13–77) [50]	21.42 (8–55) [50]	3.65 (2–7) [50]
Diptera	217–499 [49]	59.39 [50]	12.61 [50]	12.04 [50]
Species
R. palmarum (larva)	188 (125–273) [12, 18, 51]	6.57 (1.4–13.06) [12, 18, 19, 51, 52]	13.10 (6.31–21.96) [12, 18, 19, 51, 52]	7.69 [12, 18, 19, 51]
Atta cephalotes	454 (390–580) [40, 49, 53]	50.4 (43–60.11) [40, 49, 53]	28.4 (25.8–31) [40, 49]	24 [49]

*The values for Rhynchophorus palmarum are on average per 100 g of fresh weight, the other values could not be found or converted to fresh weight, and therefore are given on average per 100 g of dry weight. In parentheses is the range of variability found in the literature
^⁑CH carbohydrates

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