Various strategies are being suggested to solve the challenges in the food system, such as changing the source of nutrients, including the use of non-traditional food sources such as insects. Although insects are promoted as a cheap and sustainable source of protein, consumers are reluctant to eat them. The mycoproteins produced by fungi, on the other hand, are very well received and appreciated by consumers. Thus, in this work we have studied the use of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) for the production of protein using insects as feed. B. bassiana was cultivated in culture medium containing entire insects from the species Eurysacca and Hypothenemus or single carbon sources such as glucose or laminarin from Laminaria digitata. The results showed that B. bassiana can produce up to 16-fold more biomass and 8-fold more protein when grown in insect-based medium than when grown in glucose. The results also indicated that the production of proteins continuously increased when B. bassiana was grown in medium containing insects, reaching its maximum at 9 days (up to 3 mg/mL). On the other hand, when cultivated in glucose-supplemented medium, the production of proteins was constantly low (~0.5 mg/mL). In conclusion, B. bassiana was a large biomass producer and exuded a large amount of protein when grown in medium containing insect powder, making it an ideal intermediate link between insects and protein. Furthermore, the proteins produced by fungi such as B. bassiana can be used in the food, health, and cosmetic industries.
El consumo de leche está extendido en el mundo y se encuentra amplia información sobre el efecto de su consumo en la salud. Esta revisión bibliográfica, tuvo como objetivo recopilar y organizar la información sobre la composición diferencial de los ácidos grasos de la leche de diversos mamíferos y mostrar su relación con la salud humana. El método utilizó protocolos y criterios de búsqueda (PICOS), para obtener la información y realizar el análisis. Los resultados destacan la variación de la composición láctea según su origen animal, en el porcentaje de sus macrocomponentes (proteínas, lípidos, carbohidratos), microcomponentes (minerales, vitaminas) y otros bioelementos, así como en la composición de éstos. El macrocomponente lípidos proporciona la mayor fuente de energía, de ácidos grasos poliinsaturados (AGPI) y de vitaminas liposolubles que requiere la cría durante la lactancia, siendo éstos muy variables según el mamífero, por lo cual su consumo podría tener distintos efectos metabólicos en los humanos; así, los beneficios de los ácidos grasos poliinsaturados dependerán del tipo, cantidad y relación en que se encuentren los omega6:omega3 (1:1); el tipo de ácido graso saturado y su importancia, como el ácido palmítico (16C:0), la presencia de ácidos grasos de cadena impar (15C:0, 17C:0), o de monoaciltrigliceridos (sn2) derivados de la digestión de la leche. Por lo que concluimos que actualmente la literatura científica es abundante sobre el tema, logrando tener un mejor panorama general de los efectos de los ácidos grasos en la salud, aunque es necesario realizar más estudios específicos.
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