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ReviewInsects2026

Engineering Nutritional Profiles in Edible Insects Through Diet-Microbiome Interactions: Mechanisms, Applications and Future Directions.

Mohamed Ezzaitouni, Tarik Chileh Chelh, El-Hassan Belarbi, José Luis Guil-Guerrero

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Review in Insects, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mohamed EzzaitouniTecnología de Alimentos, Universidad de Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain.ORCID 0009-0008-4660-0470
Tarik Chileh ChelhTecnología de Alimentos, Universidad de Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9106-6643
El-Hassan BelarbiDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain.
José Luis Guil-GuerreroTecnología de Alimentos, Universidad de Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-2666-1774

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The growing demand for sustainable and nutritionally optimized protein sources has positioned edible insects as promising platforms for next-generation food and feed systems. Although insect composition varies with diet, the deliberate engineering of their nutritional profiles through controlled dietary and microbiome modulation remains insufficiently characterized. This review proposes an integrative framework in which edible insects are conceptualized as programmable biological systems whose biochemical composition can be tailored through diet-microbiome interactions. Current evidence is critically synthesized to elucidate how dietary inputs, including agro-industrial by-products and algal biomass, reshape gut microbial communities and metabolic pathways in key species such as

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bioconversionbioengineeringlipidomicsmetabolomicsmicrobiome

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PMID42652496
PMCPMC13513897

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