Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Is cockroach milk the new superfood?

The idea is a bit disarming, but cockroach milk may be one of the most super of all superfoods. Don't worry; you won't be seeing cockroach milk in stores anytime soon, and if it is ever actually for sale, the word cockroach will be left out.

In July 2016, a group of stem cell biologists and chemists published a paper that got enormous media attention, due to the strange topic. The paper, published in the International Union of Crystallography (IUCrJ), concerned a novel discovery made by a team of 11 scientists spanning from Iowa to India, who investigated the nutritional concentration of cockroach milk. They found that it exceeded the food value of buffalo milk, the international standard for the most nutritious milk, by three times.

Cockroaches are among nature's most persistent buffalcreatures. There are over 4,500 species of cockroaches worldwide. They have evolved over an estimated 320 million years and are exceptional survivors in the global ecology. Nutrition plays a role in this. And that's where cockroach milk comes in.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/09/14/is-cockroach-milk-new-superfood.html

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Yuck! Pretty sure i would try it once anyway.......i ain't right like that. I want to see one get milked up close and personal....didn't know they had breasts

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

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It may replace soy milk and almond milk for liberals

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Agreed, i think we know if this ever hits a market somewhere, it will be a liberal city loaded with fringe groups.

Mr Bombastic

Thanks, but no thanks. I've gotten by without it this long.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

There isn’t much cockroach milk in the world— that’s because only one species of cockroach, Diploptera punctata, or the Pacific beetle cockroach, produces milk. This is known as viviparity, in which developing offspring who hatch from eggs are fed milk by the mother. This milk aggregates in a brood sac within the uterus of the cockroach, and forms crystals which feed the young. It was University of Iowa biologist Barbara Stay who discovered that the milk turns into crystals in the guts of developing embryos. These crystals are exceptionally concentrated in nutrients.

cut from the article which explains what the milk is. Fascinating but doesn't sound practical, and would be VERY expensive.

out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State

I have consumed many yucky green things in the pursuit of better health, even take cordyceps regularly, which is a fungus known to grow on caterpillar corpses. This afternoon, I plan to seek out a patch of stinging nettle by the river, but I believe I will pass on the milk of cockroaches. Too bad there is nothing from spiders, as the nights get cool, they are all moving into my house. I could whip up a nice batch of spider mousse....

boatbob2

What the hell goes on,in the minds.of these delusional so called scientists?? they must be idiots,to even think of something like this..........maybe next,they will be diasecting feces,to pick out the items,with nutritional value......

valkyrierider Loc: "Land of Trump"

The tree huggers have to find something to eat due to not eating red meat and other fine foods. ROFLMAO

teabag09

A little cinnamon and nutmeg, a touch of sugar would seem just right to me. Mike

teabag09

I've been in the South too long. What are those fungus balls we would collect and eat? We don't have them here in Va. on the coast. I think they have them in the Mountains. We do have a lot of oyster and shitake mushrooms. Mike