Potatoes: Production, Quality, and Major Processed Products

Growth performance and feed conversion efficiency of three edible mealworm species (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) on diets composed of organic by-products

“…Potato starch is more resistant to digestion by Tenebrionidae than starch from wheat or maize (Applebaum, 1966;Mereiles et al, 2009). Furthermore, potato glycoalkaloids, which persist after processing (Po and Sinha, 2010) can have a toxic effect on insects that do not consume potato in nature (Nenaah, 2011;Ventrella et al, 2014). Longtime exposure to a high content of potato steam peelings could in part explain the high mortality of Z. atratus on diet LPHS, which predominantly occurred after 20 weeks.…”

Valorisation Potential of Using Organic Side Streams as Feed for Tenebrio molitor, Acheta domesticus and Locusta migratoria

“…This could be explained by the digestion resistance of potato starch by Tenebrionidae, which is higher than starch from wheat or maize [ 32 , 33 ]. In addition, potato glycoalkaloids, which persist after processing [ 34 ] can have a toxic effect on insects that do not naturally consume potato [ 35 , 36 ]. However, potato steam peelings did not seem to be as toxic to T. molitor as for Zophobas atratus, which had a much lower survival rate (27%) on the LPHS [ 11 ].…”