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Speaker 1: Welcome to brain Stuff from How Stuff Works, Hey, brain Stuff,

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Speaker 1: Lauren Vogel, Bam here, you can go ahead and stop

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Speaker 1: the world and let me get off. Scuttle Butt from

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Speaker 1: the super food sector has it that cockroach milk could

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Speaker 1: become a new niche in the non dairy milk craze.

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Speaker 1: Americans do love their dairy free alternative milks. Non dairy

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Speaker 1: milk sales grew six over the past five years, skyrocketing

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Speaker 1: to an estimated two billion in seventeen so I, almond

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Speaker 1: and coconut are the current top favorites, but other plant

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Speaker 1: based milks include pecan, cash you, macadamia, hazelnut, kinwa, flax out, rice,

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Speaker 1: and hemp are also on the rise, and a new

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Speaker 1: market research report predicts that global plant based milk sales

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Speaker 1: will exceed thirty four billion dollars by four But I

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Speaker 1: said cockroach milk. The chatter about cockroach milk first started

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Speaker 1: in that's when a study published in the Journal of

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Speaker 1: the International Union of Crystallography reported that the milk like

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Speaker 1: substance found in the mid gut of the Pacific beetle

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Speaker 1: cockroach is one of the most nutritious substances on Earth.

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Speaker 1: The Diplottera punctata, which is the only cockroach known to

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Speaker 1: give birth to live young instead of laying eggs like

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Speaker 1: regular roaches, produces protein crystals that are what scientists call

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Speaker 1: a complete food, containing proteins, fats, and sugars. Just one

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Speaker 1: of these crystals has more than three times the amount

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Speaker 1: of energy in an equivalent amount of buffalo milk, which

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Speaker 1: in turn has more energy than plain old cow's milk.

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Speaker 1: Bottom line, it's packed with calories and nutrients. Because milking

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Speaker 1: cockroaches is not a viable option, an international team of

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Speaker 1: researchers headed by scientists from the Institute of Stem Cell

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Speaker 1: Biology and Regenerative Medicine in India have figured out a

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Speaker 1: way to sequence the genes that produce the milk protein crystals.

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Speaker 1: They hope to eventually employ yeast as an efficient way

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Speaker 1: to produce these milk yielding protein crystals in large quantities.

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Speaker 1: The study suggests that because it's such a dense, time

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Speaker 1: released protein source, cockroach milk could help alleviate food and

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Speaker 1: security around the world. The light philosopher and self help

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Speaker 1: guru Dr Wayne Dyer once queried this food for thought,

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Speaker 1: Can you see the beauty in a cockroach? Well? Can you.

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Speaker 1: Today's episode was written by Carrie Tato and produced by

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