Everybody gets a kick out of eating crickets. They're fun and they taste great! Crickets as food makes sense because there are serious health and environmental benefits. Crickets are healthy offering real animal protein that includes all 9 essential amino acids, more calcium than milk, more iron than spinach, a strong source of prebiotic fiber, more than 3x more antioxidants compared to orange juice, high in bio-available B12, and much more. Raising crickets for human consumption uses much less land and water than traditional meat and they're grown humanely and sustainably. Adding Crickets to Our Diet Makes Sense! Good for us and good for our planet. An ancient food trending today! All edible insects are grown for human consumption. Edible "bugs" may be a better phrase since not all bugs are insects.