Crime against humanity? Scientists create tofu made out of mealworms

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Because regular tofu wasn't unappetizing enough, a team of graduate students at Cornell University created a tofu made entirely out of mealworms.

Yes. Mealworms.

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Believe it or not, this idea didn't start from a bad bet. It was born from the problem that humanity's consumption is having an increasingly detrimental effect on the environment.

Crushed up mealworms have the same amount of protein pound-for-pound as an egg and even more than regular tofu. But since the world would never eat something named 'mealworm-fu', the Cornell team settled on 'C-fu', after the original tofu was made with crickets.

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Harvesting mealworms takes an incredibly small amount of space and very little resources. In fact, an area the size of Rhode Island could theoretically feed two billion people.

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