Here is one type of food you couldn't imagine even in your wildest dreams, yet here it is, in the flesh. Used to flavor stews or eaten on their own, stinkbugs are said to have a crunch to them and taste a little like apple. Prepared by boiling, the bugs release defensive pheromones in a last-ditch attempt to survive, and while it hurts the eyes, the pheromones are no more successful than the onion's weak survival attempt.
Chemical analyses of ground, freeze-dried stinkbugs revealed that the insects have lots of protein and nine essential amino acids. The stinkbugs also contain cholesterol-lowering fatty acids and several antioxidants that come from a flowering plant that the bugs eat. Stink bugs might not look good or even smell good but they sure have some nutritional value to compensate for those drawbacks.