FDA: Don’t Eat Cicadas If You’ve Got A Seafood Allergy – Brood X cicadas have become quite a delicacy.
From chocolate covered, to being used as crunchy garnishes, there are recipes to use them in everywhere. But… if you have a seafood allergy do not try to eat them.
Shellfish can give a strong allergic reaction and cicadas are in that family. What it boils down to is the immune systems of certain people are sensitive to proteins found in shellfish, and similar proteins are found in cicadas.
Despite the creatures being everywhere, make a hard pass if you don’t want to take out that Epi-Pen.
Source: NBC News