By the way, I heard that research is currently underway on growing forage crickets for use as human food. They contain a lot of protein and many useful microelements. I have read that there have been proposals to make powders from crickets to use as a dietary supplement.
I've heard of that. Wouldn't be an option for me, though - I'm vegetarian (no milk; no whatever body parts of an animal; eggs okay when I can get them from somebody who has chickens running around in their garden but otherwise also not). And I'm fine with that already for decades

Don't miss a thing, super healthy and no supplements necessary.
But I wouldn't find it disgusting in the way as of it's disgusting because it's an insect. I personally just prefer to not eat an animal when I have the choice.
When Foxy was little dragon, I used crickets as food but didn't notice them salivating, but I was always very careful with them and they never got stressed, maybe that's the reason.
That's of course easier when you use feeders instead (could be transferred without grabbing them), other than e.g. having to catch a stressed cricket or grasshopper at the window to let it out. Or catching them outdoors as food for an animal.
When I was young, I had a "lawnmower lizard" - means plainly, lizard where the tail was cut off by lawnmower blades, i was still bleeding. It was not the thing when the tail comes off ("throwing off the tail", despite it's actually coming off when e.g. an animal pulls on the tail), that leaves a star-shaped wound that's not bleeding. Countryside, not going with something like that to a vet, I kept it for weeks, lizard indeed got better/ normal and then I put it back in the garden. Food was grasshoppers. Another time it was for a baby bird on the ground and its parents just not coming back. Catching grasshoppers was the easiest thing; something like mealworms was ... I don't know how far away, likely next city? No way for me to get mealworms as a kid.
For a summer, I also kept a large katidyd (species was "Heupferd"), an insect-eating species. Food was mostly grasshoppers.