Future aspects of insects’ ingestion in Malaysia and Indonesia for human well-being and religion regulation
Nurul Syazwani Ahmad Sabri,
Muhammad Imran Firdaus Kamardan,
Shi Xuan Wong,
Nadia Farhana Azman,
Fazrena Nadia Md Akhir,
Nor'azizi Othman,
Norkumala Awang,
Yutaka Kuroki,
Hirofumi Hara
Affiliations
Nurul Syazwani Ahmad Sabri
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; School of Business Management, College of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 Sintok, Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia
Muhammad Imran Firdaus Kamardan
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Fazrena Nadia Md Akhir
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Nor'azizi Othman
Department of Mechanical Precision Engineering, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Norkumala Awang
Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia, No. 2, Langgak Tunku Off Jalan Tuanku Abdul Halim, 50480, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8657, Tokyo, Japan; Corresponding author: Hirofumi Hara, Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Tokyo, Japan, Tel: +81-3-5841-1123.
Current trends have demonstrated increasing interest in maintaining and improving the state of human well-being. Natural resources, mainly plants, have been constantly used and studied for producing food and pharmaceutical products with beneficial effects on various functions in the body. However, potential food shortages, challenges in maintaining and improving human health and environmental concerns have led to the discovery of alternative and sustainable food sources to accommodate the growing and aging global populations. The consumption of insects in Asia has been mainly reported in China, Japan, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, and Vietnam. However, less consumption has been reported in Malaysia and Indonesia due to a lack of traditional knowledge by younger generations and uncertainty in the permissibility of insect consumption from a halal perspective. This review will provide a compilation of the traditional knowledge of insect consumption in Malaysia and Indonesia to provide a better understanding of insect consumption from an Islamic perspective. In addition, we will discuss the potential of locusts, which are permissible and halal for human consumption, for human well-being for Muslim populations.
