The milk protein crystals cockroaches feed their young could be the next superfood for humans.
Could cockroach milk be a superfood of the future? It could be, once we've gone past the yuck factor.
Could we one day be eating cookies and ice cream made with cockroach milk? Researchers in India have discovered that a viviparous cockroach (one that gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs) produces a substance three times more calorific than buffalo milk.
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