DENVER — A wholesome snack with simple, herbal ingredients — that’s the idea in the back of University of Denver student, Clare Whetzel’s ‘Illegal Oats’ Granola.
“I have three flavors, and in all of the flavors, I handiest have about six to eight ingredients,” Whetzel mentioned. “Compared to grocery retailer granola, different sorts of protein, that’s a lot better for you than having preservatives and emulsifiers and all of that unnatural stuff.”
The granola comes in 3 different flavors: chocolate, orange-cranberry and honey nut. But the actual magic aspect is meal worms.
It all began when Whetzel entered a pitch competition at her school, DU.
“I assumed, we will get insect powder into everyday foods and that manner, we will be able to have an alternate supply of protein to meat, and it’s extra environmentally friendly and if truth be told a lot more wholesome,” Whetzel mentioned. “So, I submitted that idea and were given the grant, and that was the start.”
For probably the most phase, Whetzel said the response has been positive, and she has developed a lot of common consumers.
“I still have the ones individuals who like will make a grossed out face or refused to consume it,” Whetzel mentioned. “Actually, the most fun gross sales are the people who at first say ‘no way,’ but then then I am able to like convert them, and then they love eating the granola.”
The ento-granola is already on the shelves of one Denver grocery retailer, Co-op at 1st.
Whetzel can also be selling it at Highlands Farmers Market beginning on May 22.
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