The product is not 'freeze-fried' and has the same nutrition as live bugs, it just needs to be supplemented with a proper gut load.

Avoid, This Useless Gimmick Designed for people that do not want to feed their lizards on live insects, my answer to this is if you can't deal with the livefood then don't buy a lizard. This freeze dried, sticky mess that should be crickets is not a suitable diet for lizards and would be best left out for the birds. If by a very very slim chance you get a lizard to even recognise this as food (let alone eat it) I wouldn't reccommend it. Though it advertises as a complete diet, I can hardly believe that It is, and I would avoid at all costs in favour of healthier, more natural and more nutritious live insects (which are also ...  Read the complete review

Zoo Med's Can O' Crickets is full of crickets in a can! These are basically dried gutloaded crickets which can be fed to your reptile pet as a variation to its normal diet. The concept is great and in theory it should work really well. The crickets are fully gutloaded and bursting with essential nutrients. I thought I would buy a can to see what they were like and whether my dragon and leopard geckos would like to try them. There is one major flaw in Zoo Meds thinking here however. most reptiles like to hunt moving food. If it doesn't move then it isn't prey to them. When I put them into a food bowl and offered them to my pets. They stayed well ...  Read the complete review

Basically, can o' crickets is a bunch of cricket bugs in a can...you would use it for feeding reptiles, birds and so on. I bought one of these to try my beardie on, just to add a little variety to his diet, and he turned his nose straight up at them. Even when put in his salad he just ignored them. Bearded dragons like to see their prey move before they eat it, so the fact of the matter is that unless you can convince your pet its alive by wiggling it in front of its face, they are unlikely to eat these, and they are obviously very unpalatable if my beardie even refused to eat it when it was in his vegetables. In addition to this, the insects in ...  Read the complete review