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October 14, 2022

How Mexico’s Locals Are Trying to Save Its Historic “Mexican Caviar”

Culture, Environment / 3 min. read

Eggs have been a healthy breakfast staple for thousands of years. Even the Aztec emperor Montezuma is said to have eaten them with his morning summer meals, according to the BBC — though his weren’t from a chicken, but an insect, the Axayácatl fly. Ahuautle, also known as “Mexican caviar,” was considered a food of […]

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Chocolate with Ahuautle, mosquito egg and Chapulines (grasshoppers) ​Ahuautle or Axayacatl, aquatic insects in the family Corixidae, the eggs of which ahuauhtli, deposited abundantly on brushes in lakes and ponds and are collected and sold as a sort of Mexican caviar, as part of the ​Aztec food. After being thoroughly cleaned and washed, they are toasted on a comal clay pan and they are prepared with garlic, lime juice and salt containing extract of agave worms, lending a sour spicy salty taste to the finished product. You can find snacks of grasshoppers all over Mexico This is a close-up​ photo of the Mexican dish, ready to be eaten.

Nonprofit Makes Whirlpools to Remove Microplastics From Water Supply

Environment, Tech / 3 min. read

Scientists estimate there are at least 14 million metric tons of microplastics on the ocean floor, but these pollutants are everywhere — from the snow on Mount Everest to the bodies of honeybees. Due to their minuscule size, microplastics can also easily infiltrate the human body, and traces have been found in breast milk, blood,

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Young woman cleaning microplastics from sand on the beach - Focus on hand
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