There's a new superfood on the block

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  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
    Cockroach milk?!?!?!?


    Nope, I'll pass.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    I have a phobia of hard-shelled insects, so not clicking that link, but I sorta want to know how you would milk a cockroach. Is it like milking an almond?
  • Bee_Le
    Bee_Le Posts: 48 Member
    I'll pass too! Holy crap, lol
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    For the curious:
    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.
  • MissusMoon
    MissusMoon Posts: 1,900 Member
    Yeah, I'm just going to refer back to John Oliver's science reporting segment and assume this is a crock. Unless it could save my life, no freaking way.
  • MelaniaTrump
    MelaniaTrump Posts: 2,694 Member
    I don't think I will replace my coffee mate just yet.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    sunnybeaches105 wrote: »
    Hey, at least we'll have a fresh milk supply during nuclear winter

    Touche
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    Stoooop. I'm not even looking. A cockroach was practically chasing me down the street yesterday. I hate hate hate them.
  • AbigailC17
    AbigailC17 Posts: 78 Member
    No thank you pvuc9gmsjbkv.gif
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    Mmmmmm.....nope.

    Seems like a treat for my beardies though. Apparently, flour made from crickets is a thing, too....And morio worms.
    I don't think my beardies would share, anyway.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    ...who even discovers these things?
  • AmberBlamberMamber
    AmberBlamberMamber Posts: 66 Member
    What the actual kitten?!
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    h311 to the no! Disgusting.
  • sunnybeaches105
    sunnybeaches105 Posts: 2,831 Member
    StealthHealth wrote: »
    What about the baby cockroaches? What are they going to drink?

    Cue PETA and naked girls painted as baby cockroaches . . . "Cockroach milk is for baby cockroaches"
  • CorneliusPhoton
    CorneliusPhoton Posts: 965 Member
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  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
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  • nh201328
    nh201328 Posts: 2 Member
    Oh my gosh lol
  • Sloth2016
    Sloth2016 Posts: 838 Member
    Is it vegan?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    I wonder what people would think if you said:

    protein crystal superfood suppliment. 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.

    Not only is the protein crystal superfood suppliment 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.

    Now the researchers have the sequence, they are hoping to get yeast to produce the crystal in much larger quantities

    This is great for food shortage (Starving) areas.
  • sunnybeaches105
    sunnybeaches105 Posts: 2,831 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    I wonder what people would think if you said:

    protein crystal superfood suppliment. 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.

    Not only is the protein crystal superfood suppliment 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.

    Now the researchers have the sequence, they are hoping to get yeast to produce the crystal in much larger quantities

    This is great for food shortage (Starving) areas.

    I'd say that marketing mattes
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    I wonder what people would think if you said:

    protein crystal superfood suppliment. 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.

    Not only is the protein crystal superfood suppliment 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.

    Now the researchers have the sequence, they are hoping to get yeast to produce the crystal in much larger quantities

    This is great for food shortage (Starving) areas.

    Yep. The article relies on shock value to get clicks and shares, and I've purposefully left it alone to be clickbait fun. But the actual protein seems pretty useful if they can manufacture it in large quantities cheaply.

    Plus it should be paleo friendly.
  • Sloth2016
    Sloth2016 Posts: 838 Member
    diannethegeek wrote: »
    For the curious:
    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.

    But but that's processing! Only natural organic cockroach protein crystals are clean.
  • chocolate_owl
    chocolate_owl Posts: 1,695 Member
    Cockroaches scare the crap out of me. They are the thing of nightmares and if somehow they all go extinct because Indian scientists round them all up - every last one on the face of this planet - to glean milk out of them while figuring out how to recreate it I will be eternally grateful.

    And I'm not coming back in this thread because inevitably some jerk will post a cockroach GIF and I won't sleep for weeks.
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