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Hawaii roaches good for milking! - terracore - 06-08-2018
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cockroach-milk-superfood-trend-entomilk/
Food trends like cronuts and charcoal come and go, but one bizarre "superfood" is back, two years after it first debuted: Cockroach milk.
The pesky bug is actually filled with an energy-rich milk-like substance. It's not your typical non-dairy milk alternative like almond milk, but cockroach milk is gaining popularity once again, after coming to the forefront in 2016.
In 2016, a research team based at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in India said the "milk" from the Pacific beetle cockroach could make for the next great superfood. These cockroaches possess protein-rich crystals that lactate to feed their young.
This particular type of cockroach, which is usually found on Pacific islands like Hawaii, gives birth to their babies, as opposed to laying eggs. Their "milk" is made up of protein-infused crystals reported to have three times the energy of the equivalent mass of normal dairy milk.
"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," Sanchari Banerjee, one of the main researchers, told the Times of India.
Perhaps now that it's 2018, people are more daring and willing to try this somewhat baffling milk alternative. Some companies are trying to get ahead of the trend by selling the bug juice in everything from milk to ice cream, WCBS reports. South African company Gourmet Grubb is selling what they call "Entomilk" -- a milk that comes from sustainably farmed insects.
"Think of Entomilk as a sustainable, nature-friendly, nutritious, lactose free, delicious, guilt-free dairy alternative of the future," the company says on its website. Gourmet Grubb says Entomilk has a high protein content and is rich in iron, zinc, and calcium.
Some scientists and cockroach milk producers admit that it may be hard to get people on the bandwagon, but that's not the only road block for cockroach milk. Besides for its unappealing name, cockroach milk is hard to come by. Roaches aren't the easiest creatures to milk, NPR reports.
It's also still unclear if cockroach milk is safe to consume. "We have no evidence that it is actually safe for human consumption," Subramanian Ramaswamy, the lead author of the study, said 2016.
So, even though some companies are developing the milk alternative now, there are many questions that have to be answered before it becomes a world wide trend.
RE: Hawaii roaches good for milking! - glassnumbers - 06-08-2018
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RE: Hawaii roaches good for milking! - ElysianWort - 06-08-2018
Too bad that isn't the common bomber type cockroach found in our Puna households.
I can see it now:
"kids, time for a snack! Cockroach milk and cookies!"
RE: Hawaii roaches good for milking! - SoCal_to_Hawaii - 06-08-2018
How do you milk a cockroach? With a really short stool.
RE: Hawaii roaches good for milking! - dayna - 06-08-2018
(shudder)
Terracore gross.
Dayna
www.E-Z-Caps.com
RE: Hawaii roaches good for milking! - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 06-08-2018
I'll wait until it's processed into Roachuefort cheese.
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
RE: Hawaii roaches good for milking! - kalakoa - 06-08-2018
Finally! Legitimate farming -- with an exportable product -- that fits on these 8000-square-foot "agricultural" lots!
RE: Hawaii roaches good for milking! - terracore - 06-08-2018
LOL Keep them coming!
ETA: Nobody thinks twice about eating bee vomit (honey) or bee milk (royal jelly) but you throw roaches into the mix and everybody goes EWWW!
"They found that the American roach has one of the largest genomes known to exist among insects, second only to the common locust."
https://gizmodo.com/newly-sequenced-cockroach-genome-explains-why-they-are-1823922316
RE: Hawaii roaches good for milking! - ElysianWort - 06-08-2018
In other countries, sources of protein are often much more creative as steak, fish, chick or pork isn't always available. It's more common to eat insects.
Heck, they do it in out country too... in some places.
https://lancasteronline.com/news/year-cicadas-are-edible-taste-a-lot-like-shrimp/article_fc7849ba-7950-5759-92ce-ad744f852799.html
RE: Hawaii roaches good for milking! - KeaauRich - 06-08-2018
Sorry, I'm Entomilk-intolerant