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Cockroach ‘milk’ isn’t harvested from these household critters, but rather the Hawaiian Pacific beetle cockroach.How do you milk a cockroach? A lot has been said about this so-called “milk” of the future, which is a stomach-turning thought, but intriguing too.A couple of years back I attended Slow Food’s Terra Madre, a festival in Turin, Italy, which celebrates food communities around the world, where I tasted, under great duress, cockroach chocolate.
The said “milk” also comes from Pacific beetle cockroaches, rather than those critters who live behind fridges and come out to hunt at night. Native to Hawaii, these roaches live outside and survive by stripping and eating the bark off trees. The appeal of cockroach ‘milk’ to humans is that it has a high nutritive value: it’s even been classed as a superfood.
How to produce the “milk” on a commercial scale? This is something scientists are scratching their heads over as it’s said to be a labour-intensive process.
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