Key Highlights
- Why does the idea of eating insects provoke discomfort, even before taste or nutrition enters the conversation?
- At an edible insects stall during a food mela at the Science Gallery, Bengaluru, this question surfaced repeatedly as visitors negotiated curiosity, disgust and the boundaries of what they considered “normal” food.
- Many assumed they were encountering a foreign idea.
- “This is eaten in other countries, right?” was a common question at the stall, curated under the exhibition theme ‘Calorie’.
- Few realised that eating insects has long been part of food cultures within India itself.
