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    The document discusses sago worms (Rhinchoporus ferrugineus) that live in decaying sago palm trunks in parts of Indonesia. Sago palms are a common plant used for their starch. Sago worms contain high levels of protein, amino acids, fatty acids, vitamin A, zinc, carbohydrates, and water, making them a potential future food source alternative to other insects. The document focuses on the nutritional composition of sago worms found living in sago palm trees.

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    The document discusses sago worms (Rhinchoporus ferrugineus) that live in decaying sago palm trunks in parts of Indonesia. Sago palms are a common plant used for their starch. Sago worms contain high levels of protein, amino acids, fatty acids, vitamin A, zinc, carbohydrates, and water, making them a potential future food source alternative to other insects. The document focuses on the nutritional composition of sago worms found living in sago palm trees.

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    Sago Worms as a High-Protein Food Alternative

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    The document discusses sago worms (Rhinchoporus ferrugineus) that live in decaying sago palm trunks in parts of Indonesia. Sago palms are a common plant used for their starch. Sago worms contain high levels of protein, amino acids, fatty acids, vitamin A, zinc, carbohydrates, and water, making them a potential future food source alternative to other insects. The document focuses on the nutritional composition of sago worms found living in sago palm trees.

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    Insecta 2019 – topic 2 nutrition composition and food product 1

    SAGO WORMS (Rhinchoporus ferrugineus)

    Trees

    Nutrition Department, Health Polytechnic, Ministry of Health, Kendari Southeast Sulawesi,


    Indonesia

    Corresponding author: trees.kendari@gmail.com

    Abstract
    Sago palm is a tropical plant that are often found in District East Indonesia as Papua,
    Ambon, and South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi and West Sulawesi Province, and at
    the same time them utilized starch of sago for consumption as the main carbohydrate
    source other than rice, corn and cassava. In that decaying sago palm trunk, we can be
    find sago worm (Rhinchoporus ferrugineus) that living there after sago palm weevil life
    cycle 30-45 days after the trunk is cut, started after egg then first until sixth instar larva
    stage. Sago worm contain high protein, amino acid, fat acid, vitamin A, zinc,
    carbohydrate, water, that can be used as food alternative from insect for the future.

    Keywords: sago worm, protein, amino acid

    Bornimer Agrartechnische Berichte

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