The sight of a cockroach
lurking in the corners of your house is enough to either make you want to
squish it with a newspaper or jump on to the chairs maintaining as much
distance from it as possible, playing on its inability to fly and praying it doesn’t
crawl its way to you.

Cockroaches ruling over
our kitchen, residing in our refrigerators, lurking from under the bowls,
crawling over our crockery – in what can only be called as an apocalyptic
vision, cockroaches will soon be on our shopping lists as cockroach milk is the
new superfood.

As hard as it may be to
swallow this fact, cockroach milk is slowly crawling up the ladder of superfoods.

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Now, the first thing that
would probably hit your mind is that does a cockroach produce milk?

Cockroach is not known to
produce milk. However, the Pacific Beetle cockroach found in Hawaii doesn’t lay
eggs, rather it gives birth to young ones. It feeds its babies with milk from
her brood sac.

So, as this cockroach is  one-of-its-kind, its milk is also oozing with health benefits.

As per a study published in the Journal of the
International Union of Crystallography, cockroach milk contains protein
crystals and is supposedly a powerhouse of nutrients. The milk apparently
contains all essential amino acids that the body needs for cell growth and
function.

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Apart from this, cockroach milk is highly glycosylated, which
contributes in giving a much-needed energy boost. It is also rich in lipids not
known to be produced by the human body.

As the benefits of
cockroach milk refuse to dial down, this milk may be better than any other milk
humans have ever harvested.

Cockroach milk will soon
see huge sales in the future once researchers find a way for an economical
harvesting and packaging process.

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So, pour some cereal in
your bowl and get slurping!