Cockroach milk will become next super food.
An international team of scientists sequenced a protein crystal located in the midgut of cockroaches in 2016. It's more than four times as nutritious as cow's milk and the researchers think it could be the key to feeding our growing population in future. 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 than regular cow's 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 Regener...