Why insects are the future of protein

Feeding ten billion people without cooking the planet is the defining challenge of our century. Conventional animal protein is extraordinarily resource-hungry: livestock uses roughly 80% of the world's agricultural land while providing under 20% of our calories.

Insects rewrite that equation.

The efficiency gap

Insects are cold-blooded, so almost none of the energy they eat is wasted keeping warm. That makes them staggeringly efficient at turning feed into edible protein:

• Feed conversion: crickets need ~2 kg of feed per kg of bodyweight; cattle need ~8 kg.
• Land: insect farming uses a tiny footprint and stacks vertically.
• Water: orders of magnitude less than beef per gram of protein.
• Emissions: dramatically lower greenhouse gases.

The most efficient protein converter on Earth isn't a machine we engineered — it's an organism evolution spent half a billion years perfecting.

Complete nutrition

Insect protein is not a compromise. It is a complete protein containing all nine essential amino acids, plus iron, zinc, and healthy fats. For many products, it can slot directly into the formats people already eat — powders, bars, and blended ingredients.

What Unifly is building

Across our Food & Protein vertical, we focus on clean, human-grade insect ingredients that taste good and scale sustainably. The goal isn't to convince the world to eat bugs — it's to make the most sustainable protein on the planet invisible, delicious and everywhere.