別覺得噁心! 蟑螂奶或成超級食品!

While most would prefer to see cockroaches squashed on the back of a shoe, the creepy critters may soon be popping up on cafe menus.

雖然大多數人更願意用鞋底把蟑螂拍爛，但這種小爬蟲或許不久便會出現在餐館的菜單上。

Cockroach milk could become a new addition to the superfood craze, with food-conscious Australians opting for a dairy alternative in their morning coffee.

蟑螂奶有望掀起新一波超級食品的熱潮，注重飲食的澳大利亞人目前正在挑選能加在晨間咖啡裏的奶製品的替代物。

The cockroach crystals, which contain the milk, 'are like a complete food' with 'all the essential amino acids', plus proteins, fats, and sugars and three times the energy of dairy milk, a researcher from the Institute for Stem Cell Biology in India claimed.

印度一名幹細胞生物學研究員稱，含有乳液的蟑螂結晶體“完全就像食物一樣”，含有重要胺基酸以及蛋白質、脂肪和糖類，其所含能量是牛奶的三倍。

Diploptera Punctata is the only species of roach that gives birth to living offspring and produces milk to feed their young.

太平洋折翅蠊是唯一靠胎生繁衍後代、產奶哺乳後代的蟑螂。

But being so tiny, they don't make a whole lot of it and it could take 1,000 cockroaches to make 100 grams of milk.

但由於蟑螂個頭太小，所產奶量又不太多，因此要1000只蟑螂才能產出100克奶。

In fact, the food and lifestyle website Goop included roaches in their animal milk guide.

事實上，食品與生活網站Goop將蟑螂納入了他們的牛奶指南當中。

'As might be expected, the process of 'milking' a cockroach is precise and laborious,' the website stated.

該網站稱：“正如人們所預料的那樣，給一隻蟑螂“擠奶”的過程，需要很精確，而且是很費力的。”