There is nothing that people love to find more than a brand new superfood.

You can't blame us for getting excited at the prospect of something to help us improve our diet though can you? Anything tasty and guaranteed to provide us with some health benefits is a sure winner here at SHEmazing. 

However, we think that digging up the best sources of protein is not a phrase we would ever use literally.

It would appear that we may have to reconsider that approach to snacking- if you're really keen on getting more protein in your diet. According to a new study in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, insects such as caterpillars, crickets, meal worms, bees, and other bugs are more nutritious, gram for gram, than steak or chicken.

Researchers at Oxford University tested six commercially available types of insects (no, we didn't have then on our list either) and found that across all six options, 100 grams of bugs (approximately 200 crickets, FYI) is actually packed with more protein, energy, calcium, and vitamins than a 100 gram serving of chicken, steak, or other meat. Delicious.

Eating weird food that delivers a ton of nutrients shouldn't be that unimaginable considering last week we were told that we should include more avocado stone in our diets, apparently. 

Before you cue the gag reflex, entomophagy- which is the scientific terms used to describe eating insects,  is actually good for the environment as well as our health.

While the production of cattle or poultry takes a lot of time, money, and ecological investment, insects only take days to mature and are cheap to maintain.

It may not be as weird as you think. Cooking creepy crawlies is considered normal, sometimes even a delicacy, in countries around the world, from ants in Brazil to chocolate-covered locusts in Mexico to deep-fried crickets in Thailand.

In the US, cricket flour has been on the market for quite some time and there are even there are cookbooks devoted to baking bugs, like The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook and Revised: 40 Ways to Cook Crickets are just two of many titles for anyone feeling insect inclined. The books include recipes like White Chocolate and Wax Worm Cookies and Deep Fried Tarantulas.

OK, so who wants to share some chocolate-covered cocroaches for dinner?