Forget the caviar and foie gras, darling – health obsessed Hollywood stars prefer tucking into INSECTS.
Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, 39, dined on ants at top restaurant Noma in Los Angeles this week.
The star of 12 Years A Slave enjoyed the bugs sprinkled on a piece of fruit and joked: “You can call me Ant-Woman!”
Earlier this month Nicole Kidman ate a four-course meal of creepy-crawlies on camera.
She started with little blue hornworms that were still alive and then moved on to grasshoppers.
Nicole, 55, said: “Two billion people in the world eat bugs and I’m one of them.”
Robert Downey Jr, 57, drinks mealworm larvae in his protein shakes. The star of the Iron Man series claims that switching to insect food will help save the planet.
He says switching to insect based food will help save the planet adding: “If we make this switch it is a huge, huge invention.”
In 2020 he started the Footprint coalition with the idea of finding new tech that can save the planet, and in November of that year the coalition funded French insect farm company Ÿnsect.
Angelina Jolie, 47, regularly tucks into crickets with her six kids.
The BBC filmed her eating a tarantula and scorpion in Cambodia.
Salma Hayek also has a penchant for the critters and in 2015 showed her Instagram followers how to eat crickets.
Around two billion people worldwide eat insects as part of their traditional diet, says the UN.
Beetles are the most commonly consumed insect, followed by caterpillars, bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets. More than 1,900 insect species are considered edible.
Insects are considered highly nutritional; the majority of them are rich in protein, healthy fats, iron, and calcium, and low in carbohydrates.
In fact, the authors of the FAO report claim that insects are just as – if not more – nutritious than commonly consumed meats, such as beef.
