News: Cockroach Milk to be the next superfood; 4x nutritious

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An international team of scientists has just sequenced a protein crystal located in the midgut of cockroaches. The reason?

It’s more than four times as nutritious as cow’s milk and, the researchers think it could be the key to feeding our growing population in the future.

Although most cockroaches don’t actually produce milk, Diploptera punctate, which is the only known cockroach to give birth to live young, has been shown to pump out a type of ‘milk’ containing protein crystals to feed its babies.

The fact that an insect produces milk is pretty fascinating – but what fascinated researchers is the fact that a single one of these protein crystals contains more than three times the amount of energy found in an equivalent amount of buffalo milk (which is also higher in calories then dairy milk).

Clearly milking a cockroach isn’t the most feasible option, so an international team of scientists headed by researchers from the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in India decided to sequence the genes responsible for producing the milk protein crystals to see if they could somehow replicate them in the lab.

"The crystals are like a complete food - they have proteins, fats and sugars. If you look into the protein sequences, they have all the essential amino acids," said Sanchari Banerjee, one of the team, in an interview with the Times of India.

Not only is the milk a dense source of calories and nutrients, it’s also time released. As the protein in the milk is digested, the crystal releases more protein at an equivalent rate to continue the digestion.

"It’s time-released food," said Subramanian Ramaswamy, who led the project. "if you need food that is calorifically high, that is time released and food that is complete. This is it."

http://www.sciencealert.com/scientis...cockroach-milk

Are you ready for the next Queens of Food and Nutrition, ATRL?

Martyr Of Fame

I rebuke thee.

♚ PRiNCE HiGH ♚

**** OFF that's ****ing nasty YUCK!!!

ks_dollar

Oh yummy. Let me go hunt a few cockroaches in my garage

Cheers. 🍻

DayFusion

Pop

I'll stick to coconut milk, ty.

Rumbler

How much milk could a cockroach possibly be producing though

SpinThatShhh

Yuck!

DayFusion

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Originally posted by ks_dollar

Oh yummy. Let me go hunt a few cockroaches in my garage

Cheers. 🍻

Oxidane

Ok...

BlackAura

Shizuka

Roaches are disgusting but that's quite interesting, especially since they're aiming to replicate.

I wonder what the flavor and texture is like in comparison to other milks.

duybeeGAshantiGA

Milk in general is not as good as they make u think. So just stop drinking milk please.

Wotamin

Nope, just nope

NX127

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Originally posted by Shizuka

Roaches are disgusting but that's quite interesting, especially since they're aiming to replicate.

I wonder what the flavor and texture is like in comparison to other milks.

omg just

Ascension

No thank you.

Bad Blood

hitmebby1morex

A new low for humanity.

ivi

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Originally posted by Martyr Of Fame

I rebuke thee.

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Originally posted by ♚ PRiNCE HiGH ♚

**** OFF that's ****ing nasty YUCK!!!

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Originally posted by DayFusion

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Originally posted by Pop

I'll stick to coconut milk, ty.

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Originally posted by SpinThatShhh

Yuck!

This mentality needs to end. Before Pasteurization Decades ago, raw milk was also a medium to a lot of microogranisms that caused wide varieties of diseases.

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Originally posted by ks_dollar

Oh yummy. Let me go hunt a few cockroaches in my garage

Cheers. ��

You need to read the whole article,sis.