‘Experts’ Say Cockroach Milk Could Be The Next Big Non-Dairy Fad

Everyone has a milk preference. Me? I’m a skim milk girl. Always have been. I’m not really a “drink a cup of milk” kind of person, but when it comes to cereal and lattes, skim milk is my go-to. I know it’s not exactly the best for optimal creaminess, but it is what it is. I LIKE MILK WATER. Judge.

I’m also not opposed to almond milk. One of my favorite coffee shops doesn’t offer skim milk, so I go with almond there. It actually makes a MUCH creamier coffee drink.

There. You’re sufficiently caught up with my dairy preferences.

Fads come and go. Almond milk is definitely the “trend” right now, and I don’t see it going away, but it’s definitely in a fad stage. What will upstage it? Oh. You know. Cockroach milk. Experts say it could be the new non-dairy trend.

Cockroach milk could become a new addition to the superfood craze, with food-conscious Australians opting for a dairy alternative in their morning coffee.

The cockroach crystals, which contain the milk, ‘are like a complete food’ with ‘all the essential amino acids’, a researcher from the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in India has claimed.

BRB GAGGING FOREVER.

Another researcher told U.S. National Public Radio he tried the milk and it tasted no different from cow’s milk.

Milk found from the Australian native Pacific beetle cockroach was found to contain protein sequences with all the essential amino acids, plus proteins, fats, and sugars and three times the energy of dairy milk, the 2016 study found.

Some people may find it surprising that the bug even makes milk at all.

I, for one, had no idea.

Diploptera Punctata is the only species of roach that gives birth to living offspring, as opposed to laying eggs, and produces milk to feed their young.

But being so tiny, they don’t make a whole lot of it and it could take 1,000 cockroaches to make 100 grams of milk, science news website Inverse reported.

Before you go, “Huh. Maybe this isn’t such a bad idea,” please know that Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop has mentioned this “alternative” in the past.

‘As might be expected, the process of ‘milking’ a cockroach is precise and laborious,’ the website stated.

‘The only way [to milk a cockroach] would be to make cultures of yeast with the genes in it for making this milk,’ said Barbara Stay, Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.

The cockroaches would needed to be ‘milked’ with filter paper, Ms Stray suggested.

Sooooooo a caramel macchiato with extra drizzle and a dash of cockroach milk. Coming to a cafe near you?

h/t Daily Mail