beneficial effects in nutritional, environmental and economic terms [4; 5; 6; 7]. However, the consumption of insect-based foods, especially in western countries, is still very limited due to prejudices that are difficult to overcome [8]. As reported in the literature, such prejudices are mainly attributable to cultural traditions showing insects as dirty and harmful creatures and communities consuming insects as poor and wild [9]. Many studies have investigated the willingness to consume insects, but the results are highly variable. This variability varies from 5% up to 78% for Belgium consumers [10; 11; 12], around 64% for American consumers [13] and 31% for Italian consumers [4]. These differences can be attributable both to the country of study and the research design. A cross-cultural comparison between German and Chinese consumers highlighted a more favorable willingness to eat insect-based foods in Chinese rather than German consumers. Moreover, Germans, similarly to Dutch consumers [14], reported higher willingness to eat processed insect-based foods while, for Chinese consumers, no differences in rating were observed. Significant predictors of consumers' willingness to eat insects in both countries were low score of food neophobia (FN), positive taste, high score of social acceptance and experiences with eating insects in the past [15]. In Poland, [PERSON] et al. [16] suggest that there is low willingness to adopt edible insects as a meat substitute among Polish students due to the psychological barriers, such as neophobia and disgust. They also confirmed what was supposed by [PERSON] et al. [17] for Australian consumers: a positive sensory experience can improve the acceptability of insects as food. In Italy, appearance and taste are the main barriers to the insect consumption, gender and education play a significant role in the acceptance of insects as food [4]. High food neophobia score was a key factor for the acceptance of insects as food in Belgian [11] and Hungarian consumers [18]. Other factors were stronger convenience orientation and higher interest in environmental impact. [PERSON] et al. [19] found, in addition to food neophobia, eight other strong significant predicting variables of willingness to eat insects for Switzerland consumers. Consumers in Northern Europe had a more positive attitude to entomohagy than consumers in Central Europe, and subjective and objective knowledge predict the willingness to buy (WTB) in Northern Europe, while, in Central Europe, food neophobia was a stronger predictor. In both regions, the insect-related experience was a good predictor [20]. The \"disgust\" factor, often related to entomohagy, is linked to cultural barriers, experiences, income, education, fashion and social trends [16; 17; 21; 22; 23]. However, although the feeling of disgust is universal and ancient, it varies in intensity between different individuals and during a lifetime depending on previous experiences [24]. At a pioneering level, some studies and experiments related to the inclusion of insects in western diets have already been carried out [10; 25; 26], but these studies have shown that the main obstacle is mostly related to the initial approach and to the first taste. Once this obstacle is overcome, the consumer recognizes in the taste of some insects some notes of hazelnut, which brings back the idea of food to which one is commonly accustomed [27]. Some studies have shown that, in some areas of the planet where the entomohagy culture was widespread in the past, there are prejudices today [28; 29], as if to deny the past. Food choices change over time and can be driven by socioeconomic reasons such as agro-food innovations, trends launched by great chefs or TV shows, culinary innovation and reasons related to ecological ideals or health [30; 31; 32]. Thus, the importance of the degree of awareness, information and education of western consumers towards edible insects is clear.