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Nas Wants You to Eat Crickets

The rapper invests in the health food market.
Nas Wants You to Eat Crickets
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By Sydney Scott · Updated October 27, 2020
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Nas just made an investment in his health and yours by backing Brooklyn-based start-up, Exo.

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The burgeoning company makes cricket-flour foods, including cricket-flour protein bars. If you’re cringing a little because the thought of eating ground up crickets makes you want to vomit, relax. It’s not like that at all. The practice of eating crickets is actually pretty healthy. It was noted in a 2013 report from the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization that crickets are incredibly nutritional with high amounts of protein.

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Eating bugs just might be the hot new thing, and Nas is clearly ready for the future of food.