WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) —
This might make your stomach turn, but drinking cockroach milk could be a coming soon health food fad.
Scientists say it is rich in protein!
There is only one type of cockroach that gives birth to live babies instead of eggs, the Pacific Beetle Roach. And a recent study shows its milk could do your body good.
Scientists at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in India report they are on to something.
Albeit, something squishy and slimy, but quite possibly the next superfood.
Typically when you see a roach story on TV it's at an infested house-- but now comes this, The Pacific beetle roach produces milk made up of protein-infused crystals with three times the energy of the equivalent mass of normal dairy milk.