Fazer, a Finnish food service provider, is offering the first insect-based bread that will be available in commercial stores. Made from flour that contains dried and crushed crickets, these loaves provide more protein than typical wheat bread.

In November of 2017, Finland joined five other European Union countries, including Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and Denmark, that decided to allow insects to be raised and marketed for food use.

"It offers consumers with a good protein source and also gives them an easy way to familiarize themselves with insect-based food," Juhani Sibakov, head of innovation at Fazer Bakeries said, according to The Baltimore Sun.

The move to adopt a diet of crawling creatures has been a long time coming. Farming insects uses substantially less land than other food-sourced animals, so environmentalists believe that eating insects may be the protein source of the future.

The United Nations estimated last year that at least two billion people eat insects, and more than 1,900 species have been used for food.

Would you try this insect-based bread, or does it give you the creepy-crawlies?