Kids are you ready to taste the foods of the future?

Eating Foods Of The Future At Cheltenham Science Festival 2016

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Whizz Pop Bang introduced eating insects (entomophagy) to the Cheltenham Science Festival; inviting kids and their families to try ‘foods of the future’. These are just some of the kids who tried pasta and flapjacks made with crickets, we think the smiles say it all!

In issue 7 of Whizz Pop Bang we introduced our readers to the concept of eating grubs as a sustainable source of protein. Now as a forward-thinking kids science magazine we’re all about looking into the future 🙂 So we got in touch with a company in Thailand, called Bugsolutely, who make pasta using 20% cricket flour mixed with 80% wheat flour, and asked them if they’d send us some boxes to try. Three weeks later a large box arrived full of pasta ready for our trials. We sent out a newsletter inviting Whizz Pop Bang subscribers to take part, and within minutes we were inundated with families wanting to taste cricket pasta! So we set up individual trials, and took the pasta to Cheltenham Science Festival to find out firsthand what the kids thought.

And the results?

Whizz Pop Bang Science Magazine foods of the future

In the style of Innocence smoothies, we asked people to vote with their rubbish. So we had a ‘YES! I’d definitely buy this’ bin, and a ‘NO! It’s not my cup of tea’ bin. The results speak for themselves, it’s a resounding YES please to buying foods made with insects in the UK!

The double page spread in February’s issue of our magazine, introducing the idea of eating grubs:

Whizz Pop Bang science magazine for kids eating insects

Feed the World – By the year 2050 there will be over 9 billion people living on Planet Earth. With all these extra mouths to feed, there is a real risk of a global food crisis developing. Farm animals are responsible for producing almost a third of the greenhouse gasses that are contributing to global warming. They also need lots of land and drink lots of water, so we need a more sustainable solution.

“The way we farm our food is going to have to change. We can’t keep farming like we do today, or we won’t be able to produce enough food and look after our environment at the same time.” Dr Sarah Beynon, an insect expert and farmer.

Insects – the taste of the future Like it or not, we are all going to have to make changes to the way we eat in the future, and scientists like Dr Beynon think that insects will soon become a normal part of our diet.

 

 


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British Science Week 2016

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To celebrate British Science Week, we asked a group of our subscribers to tell us what they think science is all about. Using posters with questions such as ‘Where is science?’ ‘Who does science?’ and ‘Why do you love science?’ the kids (aged between 6 and 10) shared their thoughts…
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Finished seed trays

5, 4, 3, 2, 1… Plant off!

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Rocket seeds

I was just a little bit excited (*practically rocketing along the country roads*) to be invited along to my kids’ lovely local village school, Meysey Hampton C of E Primary School, to help sew their space rocket seeds yesterday. If you haven’t heard about this project, here’s what it’s all about… Continue reading →


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What is a crystal?

WHAT ARE CRYSTALS?

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Crystals are solids that are made up of repeating structures. When tiny building blocks, called atoms or molecules, stick together in repeating patterns they form crystals. Different atoms and molecules make different crystals.There are seven basic types of crystal. In a cubic crystal every edge is the same length and each angle is the same size. Other crystal shapes can have edges and angles that are different sizes. Scientists class crystals according to the number of differently-sized edges and angles that they have.
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Try making your own crystal structure at home

Using cocktail sticks or dry spaghetti to represent bonds and raisins or marshmallows to represent the atoms, can you make the structure of a crystal? There are many different shapes that you could make. The important thing is that your crystal structure has a regular pattern.
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