China Dom. Bio-tech Hldgs Inc. (fka CDBH)

[Potse]

temp...insect-based commodities.....

"Do you think they might be able to produce trehalose as a by-product of their protein extractions? I am certainly confident that valuable commodities can be extracted from insects. It's just might be a tough sell to those inexperienced in biochemisty."

I don't know the entire extent/range of materials they are producing. The 2008 newspaper article I posted about earlier (#314) provides some market prices on the protein/chitin they were extracting. $4,985 per kg of larvae......

1 kg of fly larvae, and to the 20 grams of chitin, proteins 250 g freeze-dried powder, 120 grams of fat.

The current market price, freeze-dried powder protein, 1 gram is 120 yuan, 1 g of insect chitin is 200.

Only two, 1 kg of fly larvae, can turn into 34 thousand yuan.

Flies cosmetics, higher value-added. Per box 100 grams, worth 18,000 yuan.

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