Experts Call Cockroach Milk The Next Superfood

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May 30, 2018 Baxter Dmitry News, US 0
Scientists say they have discovered the next superfood that’s a perfect non-dairy alternative. However, they may have a hard time getting people to try cockroach milk.
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Scientists say they have discovered the next superfood that’s a perfect non-dairy alternative and boasts four times as much protein as cow’s milk. However, they may have a hard time getting people to try cockroach milk.

Using a 2016 report on the benefits of insect dairy, scientists found that the Pacific Beetle cockroach of Hawaii possesses nutrient-filled milk crystals, which they use to feed their young. “A single crystal is estimated to contain more than three times the energy of an equivalent mass of dairy milk,” the report stated.

CBS Minnesota reports: The study published in the Journal of the International Union of Crystallography also found that the milk-like superfood was full of amino acids and sugar-coated proteins, which makes this a nutritional gold mine for humans.

Some companies are already trying to get ahead of the trend by selling the bug juice in everything from milk to ice cream. “Think of Entomilk as a sustainable, nature-friendly, nutritious, lactose free, delicious, guilt-free dairy alternative of the future,” South African company Gourmet Grubb writes.

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Scientists and entrepreneurs both admit this trend may take some serious work to convince people they should switch to a bug-heavy diet.

“Yes, there will be people who think [insects] are icky or have a yuck factor, but the ingredients are so versatile,” Jarrod Goldin of Canada’s Entomo Farms said, via Global News.

Some reports indicate producing cockroach milk isn’t easy.

It apparently takes 1,000 cockroaches to make 100 grams of milk, according to Inverse, and other options could include a cockroach milk pill.

Would you try it?

Baxter Dmitry

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