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Holy Roach! Got Milk?
May 26, 2018 at
07:36 PM
Forget oat, soy or almond milk… one day, you may be able to enjoy a cockroach milk latte.
What does cockroach milk taste like?
It tastes like "nothing"
Why are people calling it a "perfect food?"
It boasts four times as much protein as cow's milk, but also contains essential amino acids that promote cell growth, lipids that keep our bodies healthy, and sugars that fuel energy. Cockroach milk effectively kicks the butt of every other conceivable type of milk. It is four times more energy-dense than cow milk; three times more than buffalo milk.
Not only is the milk a dense source of calories and nutrients, it's also time released. Milk as we know it logically exists in liquid form because it's easier to digest that way and easier to transfer from the body of the mother to the body of the offspring. But a ton of nutrients get lost when milk travels as a liquid. Crystal milk, though, is highly concentrated matter. With cockroach milk, no nutrients are lost; you get major bang for your lactose buck. As the protein in the milk is digested, the crystal releases more protein at an equivalent rate to continue the digestion.
How do you go about milking a cockroach?
the Pacific beetle cockroach (Diploptera punctata), is among the handful of insects which give birth to live young rather than laying eggs. As the embryos grow inside her, "she feeds them a pale, yellow liquid milk' from her brood sack".
As it stands, it's a labor-intensive process. Scientists carve out the cockroach's midgut with a scalpel to harvest the milk, which actually is more the consistency of crystals. The trick to getting the milk is to harvest at the right stage in the cockroach's lifespan. At around 40 days old, the cockroach begins to lactate for its offspring, and thus opens the window for the scientists to get up in there, which involves killing the cockroach. The process is fairly straightforward and inexpensive.
In terms of production, it helps to remember that a cockroach is not a cow. Ten cockroaches produce about half a milliliter of product; Chavas estimates that 100 grams would involve killing upwards of 1,000 cockroaches, meaning this is pretty clearly neither feasible or efficient. The difficulty of harvesting cockroach milk means we shouldn't expect to see it on the shelves.
Global Warming
Farming livestock – cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens – contributes around 6 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) to the atmosphere each year.
The discovery comes at a time when dairy milk is under increasing environmental scrutiny, as cow farts add to greenhouse gases. Alternatives like almond milk, too, have not always fared better; growing the nuts is a famously water-intensive process.
It takes about 4 gallons of fresh water to make a gallon of milk. Compared to chickens, pigs and cows, insects require a fraction of the water necessary for farming them.
Plagiarized Sources:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cock...-entomilk/
https://www.washingtonp
http://www.theweek.co.
https://www.marieclaire
https://www.inverse.com/article/1...what-is-it
https://www.ndtv.com/food/cockroa...re-1857425
https://www.sciencealer
https://globalnews.ca/news/422664...superf
https://www.indiatimes.
http://blogs.lt.vt.edu/water/2015...n-of-milk/
http://theconversation
https://timeforchange.o
https://en.wikipedia.or
The original research from 2016:
http://journals.iucr.o
Alternatively... You know what else contains protein?
"And you'll be trapped down there forever. In the - - - and joke mines of Mars."
What does cockroach milk taste like?
It tastes like "nothing"
Why are people calling it a "perfect food?"
It boasts four times as much protein as cow's milk, but also contains essential amino acids that promote cell growth, lipids that keep our bodies healthy, and sugars that fuel energy. Cockroach milk effectively kicks the butt of every other conceivable type of milk. It is four times more energy-dense than cow milk; three times more than buffalo milk.
Not only is the milk a dense source of calories and nutrients, it's also time released. Milk as we know it logically exists in liquid form because it's easier to digest that way and easier to transfer from the body of the mother to the body of the offspring. But a ton of nutrients get lost when milk travels as a liquid. Crystal milk, though, is highly concentrated matter. With cockroach milk, no nutrients are lost; you get major bang for your lactose buck. As the protein in the milk is digested, the crystal releases more protein at an equivalent rate to continue the digestion.
How do you go about milking a cockroach?
the Pacific beetle cockroach (Diploptera punctata), is among the handful of insects which give birth to live young rather than laying eggs. As the embryos grow inside her, "she feeds them a pale, yellow liquid milk' from her brood sack".
As it stands, it's a labor-intensive process. Scientists carve out the cockroach's midgut with a scalpel to harvest the milk, which actually is more the consistency of crystals. The trick to getting the milk is to harvest at the right stage in the cockroach's lifespan. At around 40 days old, the cockroach begins to lactate for its offspring, and thus opens the window for the scientists to get up in there, which involves killing the cockroach. The process is fairly straightforward and inexpensive.
In terms of production, it helps to remember that a cockroach is not a cow. Ten cockroaches produce about half a milliliter of product; Chavas estimates that 100 grams would involve killing upwards of 1,000 cockroaches, meaning this is pretty clearly neither feasible or efficient. The difficulty of harvesting cockroach milk means we shouldn't expect to see it on the shelves.
Global Warming
Farming livestock – cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens – contributes around 6 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) to the atmosphere each year.
The discovery comes at a time when dairy milk is under increasing environmental scrutiny, as cow farts add to greenhouse gases. Alternatives like almond milk, too, have not always fared better; growing the nuts is a famously water-intensive process.
It takes about 4 gallons of fresh water to make a gallon of milk. Compared to chickens, pigs and cows, insects require a fraction of the water necessary for farming them.
Plagiarized Sources:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cock...-entomilk/
https://www.washingtonp
http://www.theweek.co.
https://www.marieclaire
https://www.inverse.com/article/1...what-is-it
https://www.ndtv.com/food/cockroa...re-1857425
https://www.sciencealer
https://globalnews.ca/news/422664...superf
https://www.indiatimes.
http://blogs.lt.vt.edu/water/2015...n-of-milk/
http://theconversation
https://timeforchange.o
https://en.wikipedia.or
The original research from 2016:
http://journals.iucr.o
Alternatively... You know what else contains protein?
"And you'll be trapped down there forever. In the - - - and joke mines of Mars."
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No way protein could be stored and be stabilized in those poo.
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