Cockroach milk? Insect dairy alternatives could be the next superfood trend

[Anonymous No.10657007]

It may not be everyone’s cup of milk, but for years now, some researchers believe insect milk, like cockroach milk, could be the next big dairy alternative.


A report in 2016 found Pacific Beetle cockroaches specifically created nutrient-filled milk crystals that could also benefit humans, the Hindustan Times reports.

“I don’t think anyone is going to like it if you tell them, ‘We extracted crystals from a cockroach and that is going to be food,’” biochemist Subramanian Ramaswamy told the Washington Post in 2016, adding more research would need to be done to figure out how roach milk would affect humans.

Others report producing cockroach milk isn’t easy, either — it takes 1,000 cockroaches to make 100 grams of milk, Inverse reports, and other options could include a cockroach milk pill.

And although it has been two years since the study, some people are still hopeful. Insect milk, or entomilk, is already being used and consumed by Cape Town-based company Gourmet Grubb, IOL reports.

The shop currently makes ice cream with insect milk. “Eating insects as is or in powdered form is a tad boring. … Therefore we use entomilk to make our delicious ice cream,” the website notes. Think of entomilk as a sustainable, nature-friendly, nutritious, lactose-free, delicious, guilt-free dairy alternative of the future.”

And insect products are also more mainstream than ever — even though communities around the globe have been consuming them for protein for decades. With the news of Loblaw Companies Ltd. picking up cricket powder at local grocery stores, Jarrod Goldin, president of Entomo Farms in Norwood, Ont., says his business can’t keep up with demand.

“Yes, there will be people who think [insects] are icky or have a yuck factor, but the ingredients are so versatile,” he tells Global News.

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/05/25/insect-milk-dairy-superfood/

https://globalnews.ca/news/4226641/cockroach-milk-superfood/

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Goldin, who launched his business in 2014, got interested in the insect market after the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation in 2013 announced people around the world were consuming more than 1,900 insects. As his brothers were already farming insects for fishing and reptile use, Goldin thought it was be a smart business opportunity to focus on food.

“This idea that insects are for the poor and disenfranchised is really missing the point,” he continues. “The truth is there are nutritional health benefits that would be good for everybody.”
And although he doesn’t see an interest in the Canadian market for insect milk as of now, he says he can see insect powder being mixed into other milk alternatives or even something like protein-packed insect milk down the road.

The benefits

Goldin adds studies have shown cricket powder can be a high source of protein and B12. The PC version his company produces has 13 grams of protein per every 2 1/2 tbsps.

Toronto-based registered dietitian Andy De Santis says for protein alternatives, insects are definitely in the playing field.

“I appreciate that they are a potentially more economical and environmentally friendly alternative to conventional animal products and if such a context exists that these two considerations trump everything else, perhaps these products could come to further prominence,” he tells Global News. “But I am unsure as to their micronutrient content and whether or not it is comparable to more conventional alternatives,”

Goldin says as more research is being done, he is aware some people may not understand the idea of consuming something like crickets or cockroaches. For him, it’s keeping ahead in a growing industry.

“As consumers, you should be able to understand the ingredients in your food. Our challenge is not adoption, but producing more faster.”

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He says while he sees the taboo that North American culture still has around consuming insects, a lot more research has to be done on their nutrition value.

“I’ve read that some species of insects contain decent levels of nutrients but that it depends on seasonality and what the insects are fed,” he continues. “From what limited information I’ve seen on cricket flour, it may be a good source of B12 but really only a modest source of iron/calcium.”

[Anonymous No.10657119]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9mz_4Tiz_k

[Anonymous No.10657129]

>>10657007
Nah.

Fucking nah.

I draw the goddamn line at roach milk.

[Anonymous No.10657132]

>>10657129
Do vegans care about bugs could they drink this?
They already kill billions with their diet.

[Anonymous No.10657135]

Poor people will eat bugs while the rich will continue to enjoy real food.

[Anonymous No.10657152]

>>10657132
>do vegans care about animals
No, veganism is virtue signaling at its core. If they cared about animals, they'd start with their fellow humans

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[Anonymous No.10657404]

I wonder what it tastes like.

[Anonymous No.10657545]

>Hindustan

[Anonymous No.10657551]

>>10657007
This isn't going to catch on. There's no way enough people will drink roach milk.

[Anonymous No.10657580]

>>10657007
its always nice to see these alternative foods, but I have no idea how you can convince someone to eat them, including myself.

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>>10657580
Why not if they are fed a clean diet and well cared for and happy what is the problem?

[Anonymous No.10657596]

>Subramanian Ramaswamy

POO

[Anonymous No.10657650]

>>10657007
UN pro-insect propaganda.

[Anonymous No.10658073]

>>10657007
If I ever went to my homies house and he offered me cockroach milk id slap the shit out of him

[Anonymous No.10658114]

>>10658073

What type of bug milk do you want to drink anon?

[Anonymous No.10658117]

>>10657007
k.

[Anonymous No.10658127]

>>10657007
>Subramanian Ramaswamy
>literal subhuman eating subhuman food

[Anonymous No.10658131]

https://gourmetgrubb.com

[Anonymous No.10658164]

>>10658127
More normal people food for us though.

[Anonymous No.10658167]

>>10658127
>>10658117
>>10658114
>>10658073
>>10657650
>>10657596
>>10657580
>>10657551
>>10657152
>>10657135
>>10657132
>>10657129
>>10657119
enjoy the colon cancer then
>inb4 vegan not realizing that insects are animals

[Anonymous No.10658178]

>>10658167

Has Cockroach milk shown to increase colon cancer? Seems pretty healthy to me desu

[Anonymous No.10659663]

Gib moth milkies nao!

[Anonymous No.10659738]

>>10657007
Certain insects give me the heebie jeebies, of those cockroaches are one of them. You could not pay me to drink the "milk" of one of them.

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>>10657404
Salty milk and coins

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>>10657007
>Humans begin drinking cockroach milk
>farmers begin feeding cockroaches growth hormones to produce more milk
>giant cockroaches with DD titties escape milking plantations and scurry into your home looking for food
Not even the weirdest sci-fi novels could forsee this.

[Anonymous No.10659815]

Tastes like poop.

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[Anonymous No.10659948]

>>10659947

[Anonymous No.10659951]

>>10659948

[Anonymous No.10660009]

>Drinking the secretions of another animal

Disgusting.

[Anonymous No.10660026]

White people never evolved to eat insects, we come from northern cold climbs that insects big and numerous enough to be worth their harvest as a protein source struggle to survive in.

We have never traditionally eaten insects and we will always have that deeply programmed disgust response to the prospect. Iversley that's why people in equatorial countries love eating insects.

These urbanite hipster faggots need to stop pushing insects on white westerners, its not going to happen. Nobody wants it, nobody needs it.

[Anonymous No.10660029]

>>10660026
t. learned a few sciency-sounding words on reddit and thinks he's a scientist now

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>>10660026
Do not search for demodex

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>>10660026
then why do fried insects also taste good to most westerners?

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>>10657007
>yes goyim, we will eat drink kosher milk and eat prime rib while you drink cockroach milk and eat bugs

[Anonymous No.10660041]

>>10660037

Because its still protein, I said the disgust response evolved in us because we would associate insects with decay not as a food source in our traditional diet. Doesn't mean that if you get over the natural disgust response it won't taste good.

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>>10660041
I'm not really that disgusted by little animals since I am not a girl ;)

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>>10660041
Why is cheese (rotten milk) not disgusting?
It's invention is too recent to have 'evolved' with us.
Tastes are cultural. Get a passport, faggot.

[Anonymous No.10660053]

>more fake milk
The only thing all fake milks have in common with real milk is that it's white and liquid. It doesn't taste remotely like milk, and should not be allowed to be called that.

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>>10660050
Why would I need a passport when America has more distinct cultures than anywhere in Europe?

Passports are for cucks, if you hate western civilization move to Africa and eat bugs

[Anonymous No.10660063]

>>10660058
>America has more distinct cultures than anywhere in Europe
>this is what americans ACTUALLY believe

[Anonymous No.10660072]

>>10660058
>Why would I need a passport when America has more distinct cultures than anywhere in Europe?

The absolute STATE of American """""Education"""""""

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>>10660063
>>10660072
obsessed

[Anonymous No.10660085]

>>10660079
Is "obsessed" the /ck/ variant of "whiter than you mohammed"

[Anonymous No.10660089]

>>10660079
>*obesessed
itfy

[Anonymous No.10660090]

>>10660079
>brings up muh Murica vs Europe
>gets shit on as the Amerishart he is
>You're o-obsessed with me

RETARD

[Anonymous No.10660091]

>>10660050

It did evolve in us though. Europeans have been consuming dairy for about 100,000 years that is enough time to adapt to it. It's also why lactose intolerance is far lower in Europe than other parts of the world.

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>>10660091

10,000 years*

[Anonymous No.10660100]

I may well beat to death the first person to tell me they drank cockroach milk.

[Anonymous No.10660105]

Roach milk is the only thing that will be available in post-fallout 7-11s

[Anonymous No.10660106]

>milking a non-mammal

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>>10660058
>Why would I need a passport when America has more distinct cultures than anywhere in Europe?
Cringe

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>>10660091
He said rotten milk not dairy in general you braindead amerishart

[Anonymous No.10660124]

>>10660108

He was talking about cheese when he said 'rotten milk'. Work on your reading comprehension, by the way I'm not American.

[Anonymous No.10660129]

>>10660124
I like how you took my correction of your nonsense and tried to No U it back on me

[Anonymous No.10660131]

>>10660124
Cheese is maybe 10,000 years old. And considering most of the world is lactose intolerant it stands to reason that most humans should consider it foul given the earlier conversation. This thread has gone to shit now anyway.

[Anonymous No.10660144]

>>10660129
>>10660131

Cheese has been eaten by Europeans for thousands of years, that why we don't find it disgusting and have lower incidence of lactose intolerance.

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>>10660144
Partly true, meaning in the end, you’re completely wrong

Close only works with horse shoes and hand grenades

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>>10660163
>you are essentially correct
>but you're wrong because of my idiom

Fucking top notch.

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>>10660085
yes

[Anonymous No.10660529]

I was laughing my ass off when I was reading the comments

[Anonymous No.10660531]

>>10660085
It's some sort of weird comeback they seemingly all agreed on. It's just strange and never had any effect, but they keep on doing it, as if they believe that some day it will. It's what you'd expect some awkward kid to say when it gets pestered all the time and doesn't know how to deal with it. "Why me?"

[Anonymous No.10661092]

are cockroach mammals? where the "milk" comes from?

[Anonymous No.10661531]

>>10661092
>are cockroach mammals?
CIA would like to know your location

[Anonymous No.10661585]

>>10661092
Yeah, technically Turks are mammals

[Anonymous No.10662001]

>>10660072
hes right

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[Anonymous No.10662976]

And although he doesn’t see an interest in the Canadian market for insect milk as of now, he says he can see insect powder being mixed into other milk alternatives

Enjoy your soy cockroach milk, vegans.

[Anonymous No.10663210]

In sort of the same way that I have yet to find a threshold at which third world suffering is so great that I'd say defund the space program to help them I don't see myself willing to significantly degrade my personal life to help the continued pointless growth of the overall population.