It's known that phytates are a P storage in plants, in particular seeds. Plants produce enzymes to release P upon need. Also ruminants can digest phytates thanks to their gut microbiome. However, for many animals phytic acid is an antinutrient because it binds nutrients in cationic form (Ca2+, Mg2+ etc.). Insect have proven able to digest a wide variety of substrates thanks to their gut microbiome. I found mentions of phytates in insect-based products, but it wasn't addressed whether insects can digest them. Do you know if any experiment proved they can digest phytates?
Dear Dr.Nicolò M. Villa,
you can search about the ability of Black solider fly to digest such substrate "phytic acid" which plants enriched with such acid, as I know Black solider fly larvae their gut microbiome has the ability to digest such substrate.
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