Cricket-Powered Energy (Online Exclusive)

Despite the buzz surrounding Exo bars’ protein source, Exo Inc. co-founder Gabi Lewis didn’t necessarily set out to make a cricket bar. Frustrated by what he saw as a lack of great options in the protein-bar arena, both in terms of taste and nutritional content, Lewis, then a senior at Brown University, began to make his own bars in his dorm room. It was only after his roommate and eventual co-founder alerted Lewis to the potential benefits of insect—and specifically cricket&md…