Aldi are considering selling edible insects as apart of a new TV show that would see insect recipe kits battle it out for a place on the popular supermarket's shelves
The United Nations say that the market for edible insects could be worth £4.6 billion by 2030, and two billion people already eat the little critters as part of their diet.
But because of Brexit, there were temporarily no laws regulating the consumption of insects in the UK, meaning they were outlawed on a technicality.
This left companies like Horizon Insects being forced to kill off 100kgs of mealworms and stop sales.
But this summer, the Foods Standard Agency set out plans to get them back onto the market.
This in turn meant that six insects - lesser mealworm, house cricket, yellow mealworm, banded or decorated cricket, migratory locust - were back on the menu, opening the door to them appearing on Aldi’s shelves.
