Earthworm protein is easily hydrolyzed into free amino acids. The crude fat content of earthworm meal was 7.34%. Their protein content and amino acid composition are better than those of fish meal, cow milk and soybean meal.
Earthworms are rich in protein and various amino acids the protein content of earthworm meal was 54.6–59.4% on dry weight.
Because of medicine food homology in China, people have been using earthworms as a food for several centuries. The invertebrates are important decomposers of organic matter and help improve soil health by promoting aeration and recycling nutrients.Earthworms have been a traditional medicine in China for at least 2300 years. In all, more than 7,000 earthworm species exist in moist soils across all continents, except for Antarctica. They usually live in undisturbed areas, like forests.Īmong New Zealand’s more than 200 earthworm species, the largest is a rarely seen creature called the North Auckland worm ( Anisochaeta gigantea), which grows to be almost five feet long. Still, he says, it’s uncommon to find a giant earthworm in a garden. “There are some very large native earthworms known-a meter isn’t beyond the borders of reason,” he tells the publication. Though the massive worm looks “a bit like the creature from the black lagoon,” it’s actually likely to be a native earthworm species, says John Marris, curator of the entomology research collection at Lincoln University in New Zealand, to Stuff. “We’ve had some big worms here in the past, but nothing like that guy. “Thankfully, I was at work when said worm was found because, oh my word, how disgusting!” she tells the publication. For her part, she thought that the worm looked unappealing and a bit bloated. “I thought it was massive, and amazing, and a little bit disgusting,” he says to Liz McDonald from Stuff.ĭomigan’s mother, Jo, tells RNZ her son was “pretty delighted” to find it. “I could not believe my eyes,” Domigan tells RNZ, adding that he named the creature “Dead Fred.” He grabbed a stick, fished it out and discovered it was a three-foot-long, dead earthworm, reports Radio New Zealand (RNZ). Nine-year-old Barnaby Domigan was playing in his family’s backyard in Christchurch, New Zealand, when he noticed something bobbing in the water of a nearby riverbed.
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