Nutritional Value Analysis of the Larvae of the Superworm Zophobas Morio by using Proteomics Technology

Abstract

The superworm Zophobas morio is becoming increasingly important food insects for people. In this paper, larvae of the superworm were used as research materials to detect and analyze the protein data of larvae of Z. morio by using data independent acquisition technology. Gene Ontology database, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes database, clusters of euKaryotic Orthologous Groups database and other databases were used for protein identification and detection, i.e., proteomic analysis. The results showed that the number of detected proteins was 4589, and 91.9% of them were successfully annotated, among which Trx-2 protein was found to be a high-quality protein that can be absorbed by the human body and the larvae of Z. morio were developed in the food industry to grind insect powder as a food raw material, and the edible benefits of amino acid oral liquid manufacturing need to be further studied, so PCR amplification analysis was carried out for its Trx-2 gene.