You must have heard about cow milk, almond milk and soy milk to name a few. But have you ever heard about cockroach milk? Weird and creepy as it may sound, but insects are the latest fad in the craze of superfoods. Researchers from the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in India say that humans can enjoy nourishment from cockroach milk. Cockroach milk is the post-natal fluid which is secreted from the critter in the form of crystals in order to nourish its hatchlings which are somewhere close to 50.
Researchers claim that these crystals contain proteins, sugars and fats, and are like complete foods. The protein sequences apparently contain all essential amino acids. Milking of a cockroach can be done with the help of filter paper along with making culture of yeast with cockroach genes for making milk.
Moving over to what most of you dread the most - the taste of cockroach milk - it is said that it tastes like cow milk. However, given the small size of cockroaches, it might take a lot of these insects for extracting one glass of milk.
Following this development, Gwyneth Paltrow's website Goop has added cockroaches to their animal milk guide. Alongside, the Gourmet Grubb company is already selling entomilk which is made from insects that are farmed in a sustainable manner. These companies make the claim that entomilk or milk extracted from insects is rich in protein, calcium, zinc and iron.
On its website, Gourmet Grubb mentions that entomilk should be thought of as nature-friendly, sustainable, lactose free, nutritious, guilt-free and delicious alternative of the future.
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