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Animal proteins and fats are not fungible.

If you habitually eat large quantities of non-digestible insect proteins like chitin, it will in all likelihood severely damage your digestive system. Insects also have an extremely unfavorable protein:fat ratio, and any supplemental fat is likely to be other industrial fats like rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, etc. which have extremely poor chemical properties like {S,MU,PU}FA ratios.



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