What do you think if you eat a bread made from cockroaches?

The cockroaches are now real, and probably in the future will be used to replace ordinary bread, when the Earth falls into food scarcity.

You are eating a meat-and-cheese sandwich with a delicious sauce to choke. But then the chef comes out and tells you that the bread you are eating is made from . cockroaches. What do you think now?

If you feel terrible, then there is a bad news for you! Eating bread made from future cockroaches is likely to become an irreversible trend.

Bread made from cockroaches will be the trend of the future.

Insects are a difficult source of protein to ignore

It is not unusual for people to eat insects. In many countries, people also have an insect-related cuisine. From grasshoppers, locusts, heavier than a little, scorpions, spider spiders . all have.

Of course, there are also cockroaches - like fried roasted specialty of Cambodian and Thai.

Basically, insects are an extremely impressive source of protein , not inferior to conventional fish meats. It is estimated that there are about 2 billion people in the world still eating insects regularly.

Dishes from insects.

For those who do not know, the livestock industry is making a huge impact on climate change and global warming. So, the use of insects instead of traditional meats is gradually being paid attention by scientists.

The reason is because insects can proliferate at a much faster rate than regular animals , but don't consume too much food. According to nutrition scientist Enio Viera, to produce 1kg of meat requires 250m ^{2 of} land; while with so many insects, you only need 30m ² . The amount of water to use is also less: 1000 liters of water for 1 kg of bugs compared to 20,000 liters for 1 kg of beef.

And the idea of ​​cockroaches was born

Experts at the Federal University of Rio Grande (Brazil) came up with the idea of ​​making a kind of bread made from cockroaches.

Rest assured, these are not the cockroaches you still see everyday. The cockroaches used here are nauphoeta cinerea - cockroach species with a pretty . charming name is "lobster cockroach". They are originally native to North Africa, but are now present all over the world.

Cockroaches are called . lobster.

Wanting to turn the cockroaches into bread needs a rather complicated process. First, the cockroach will be dried and ground into a fine powder, then mixed with ordinary flour and then make bread.

According to calculations, a 100g bread containing only 10% of dried cockroach has an additional 22g of protein, while the cake usually only reaches 9g. Moreover, the presence of cockroach also helps to reduce fat content in cakes by 68%.

The taste of "cockroach" is like . peanut cake

According to Myrian Salas Mellado - engineer responsible for the project, the taste of bread is not much affected after mixing cockroaches.

"We tested the texture, the smell, the color and the taste of the cake. The results have nothing to do with it. Some people have a more sensitive taste than they can even smell . peanuts in pie".

The taste of bread is not affected much after mixing cockroach powder.

Looking outside, cockroaches and cakes will often be no different, since the structure has not changed.

In short, cockroaches taste like peanuts, and are likely to be used in the future when the Earth is short of food.

The problem is whether you dare to eat now?