Insects as food

Insect as food - flesh from insects. Article “Insects as food” in English Wikipedia has 97.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 130 references and 22 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Insects as food” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Insects as food”, its content was written by 104 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 226 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 289 times in English Wikipedia and cited 685 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #13311 in December 2024
• Global: #25767 in February 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #133044 in February 2023
• Global: #154894 in January 2023

There are 12 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Insects as food		97.116
2	German (de) Speiseinsekt		85.2807
3	Portuguese (pt) Insetos comestíveis		84.9119
4	Chinese (zh) 食用昆蟲		79.0959
5	Ukrainian (uk) Комахи як їжа		74.8348
6	Romanian (ro) Insecte ca sursă de hrană		72.5018
7	Catalan (ca) Insectes com a aliment		60.2266
8	Hebrew (he) חרקי מאכל		55.229
9	Korean (ko) 식용 곤충		32.3481
10	Arabic (ar) الحشرات باعتبارها غذاء		31.6924

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Insects as food" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Insects as food		521 568
2	German (de) Speiseinsekt		138 881
3	Korean (ko) 식용 곤충		95 832
4	Chinese (zh) 食用昆蟲		70 757
5	Hebrew (he) חרקי מאכל		3 655
6	Romanian (ro) Insecte ca sursă de hrană		2 768
7	Catalan (ca) Insectes com a aliment		2 167
8	Persian (fa) حشرات خوراکی		1 947
9	Portuguese (pt) Insetos comestíveis		1 881
10	Vietnamese (vi) Côn trùng (thực phẩm)		716

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Insects as food" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Insects as food		5 750
2	German (de) Speiseinsekt		676
3	Chinese (zh) 食用昆蟲		629
4	Korean (ko) 식용 곤충		284
5	Portuguese (pt) Insetos comestíveis		111
6	Hebrew (he) חרקי מאכל		69
7	Romanian (ro) Insecte ca sursă de hrană		69
8	Ukrainian (uk) Комахи як їжа		33
9	Catalan (ca) Insectes com a aliment		21
10	Arabic (ar) الحشرات باعتبارها غذاء		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Insects as food" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Insects as food		104
2	German (de) Speiseinsekt		51
3	Korean (ko) 식용 곤충		21
4	Chinese (zh) 食用昆蟲		17
5	Hebrew (he) חרקי מאכל		10
6	Catalan (ca) Insectes com a aliment		6
7	Vietnamese (vi) Côn trùng (thực phẩm)		5
8	Arabic (ar) الحشرات باعتبارها غذاء		3
9	Romanian (ro) Insecte ca sursă de hrană		3
10	Ukrainian (uk) Комахи як їжа		3

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Insects as food" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Insects as food		2
2	Hebrew (he) חרקי מאכל		1
3	Portuguese (pt) Insetos comestíveis		1
4	Arabic (ar) الحشرات باعتبارها غذاء		0
5	Catalan (ca) Insectes com a aliment		0
6	German (de) Speiseinsekt		0
7	Persian (fa) حشرات خوراکی		0
8	Korean (ko) 식용 곤충		0
9	Romanian (ro) Insecte ca sursă de hrană		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) Комахи як їжа		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Insects as food" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Insects as food		289
2	Korean (ko) 식용 곤충		125
3	Arabic (ar) الحشرات باعتبارها غذاء		109
4	German (de) Speiseinsekt		71
5	Chinese (zh) 食用昆蟲		63
6	Catalan (ca) Insectes com a aliment		12
7	Persian (fa) حشرات خوراکی		5
8	Portuguese (pt) Insetos comestíveis		4
9	Hebrew (he) חרקי מאכל		3
10	Romanian (ro) Insecte ca sursă de hrană		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الحشرات باعتبارها غذاء
ca	Catalan Insectes com a aliment
de	German Speiseinsekt
en	English Insects as food
fa	Persian حشرات خوراکی
he	Hebrew חרקי מאכל
ko	Korean 식용 곤충
pt	Portuguese Insetos comestíveis
ro	Romanian Insecte ca sursă de hrană
uk	Ukrainian Комахи як їжа
vi	Vietnamese Côn trùng (thực phẩm)
zh	Chinese 食用昆蟲

Best Rank

English: #133044 02.2023

Global: #154894 01.2023

Best Rank

English: #13311 12.2024

Global: #25767 02.2022

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