Thread: New And Cheap Superfood

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JACINTA BOWLER 7 APR 2018
An international team of scientists sequenced a protein crystal located in the midgut of cockroaches in 2016. The reason?

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 the 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 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.

"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," said Sanchari Banerjee, one of the team, in an interview with the Times of India back in 2016.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scienti...milk-superfood

Sounds interesting...but we do not need a "growing" population.

We need Global Population Control and prevent people from having more mouths to feed then THEY can afford.

We want quality of life...not QUANTITY of breeding poverty living in the dirt with no means or desire to feed and take care of themselves.

Originally Posted by Beezer

Sounds interesting...but we do not need a "growing" population.

We need Global Population Control and prevent people from having more mouths to feed then THEY can afford.

We want quality of life...not QUANTITY of breeding poverty living in the dirt with no means or desire to feed and take care of themselves.

Eating nutritional food should be a human right. So much waste it's not funny. I see big pieces of fruit get rejected for a bruise. We have it so good...