What would a bushtucker diet of bugs and mouse tails do to the body?

As the annual spectacle of celebrities eating jungle nasties draws to a close this weekend, what's the nutritional value of an I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! style diet?

There was a woman who swallowed a fly. Then a spider that wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.

The thrill of this nursery rhyme - and its TV equivalent, the bushtucker trial on I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! - is the excruciating thought of eating something icky and unlikely.

But what would a diet of spiders and flies, mouse tails and camel toes do to the body? Is there enough nutritional value in these icky somethings to sustain human life?

Yes - in part, say experts, if eaten with fruit and vegetables to provide missing vitamins and minerals.    More Read