{"id":120743,"date":"2021-03-20T21:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T04:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/munching-maggots-help-singapore-startup-secure-lucrative-biomaterial"},"modified":"2021-03-20T21:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T04:23:40","slug":"munching-maggots-help-singapore-startup-secure-lucrative-biomaterial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/munching-maggots-help-singapore-startup-secure-lucrative-biomaterial","title":{"rendered":"Munching maggots help Singapore startup secure lucrative biomaterial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/munching-maggots-help-singapore-startup-secure-lucrative-biomaterial.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working in conjunction with Singapore\u2019s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Insectta\u2019s technology uses a proprietary and environmentally friendly process to extract lucrative substances such as chitosan, melanin and probiotics from the larvae, it said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SINGAPORE (Reuters) \u2014 In a quiet, mainly residential district of Singapore, trays of writhing black soldier fly larvae munch their way through hundreds of kilograms of food waste a day.<\/p>\n<p>The protein-rich maggots can be sold for pet food or fertiliser, but at Insectta \u2014 a startup that says it is Singapore\u2019s first urban insect farm \u2014 they are bred to extract biomaterials that can be used in pharmaceuticals and electronics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat these black soldier flies enable us to do is transform this food waste, which is a negative-value product, into a positive-value product,\u201d said Chua Kai-Ning, Insectta\u2019s co-founder and chief marketing officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working in conjunction with Singapore\u2019s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Insectta\u2019s technology uses a proprietary and environmentally friendly process to extract lucrative substances such as chitosan, melanin and probiotics from the larvae, it said. SINGAPORE (Reuters) \u2014 In a quiet, mainly residential district of Singapore, trays of writhing black soldier fly larvae munch their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}