More than 2,000 mealworms grow from eggs, larva, pupa to adults per box.
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"Once our factory starts full operation, KEIL's annual capacity alone will reach 1,000 tons." The farming process starts in a blue tray filled with wheat bran, which is the grain's outer layer. "Around 100 tons of mealworms are produced in Korea per year," says Kim. Test operations of the factory were commenced in May. It will farm the insects in quantity and process them into powder or oil. KEIL's first mass production facility is nearing the completion in Osong, North Chungcheong.
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But his company KEIL, where he serves as CEO, is now Korea's largest supplier of edible insects to food, cosmetics and animal feed factories. Papillon's Kitchen closed temporarily in 2018 and Kim is not currently a restauranteur. They went on to develop technology that could separately extract oils and protein from the insect's tissue and shell. Over the years, the team's production methods evolved as they applied food processing techniques to produce more powder and extract higher levels of nutrition from the same quantity of mealworms. The team spent hours a day in a lab, grinding dried mealworms into powder form. Ex-culinary professor Kim Young-wook started the business with some of his students to develop insect-based snacks and to run the restaurant. OSONG, North Chungcheong - Papillon's Kitchen opened in 2015 as Seoul's first "insect restaurant," serving dishes made from ground bugs.
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KEIL CEO Kim Young-wook poses by an ″egg tower″ for mealworm cultivation at the company's factory in Osong, North Chungcheong.