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Many people don’t consider their breakfast without a glass of milk. Right now, cows, buffalos, goats...
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Many people don’t consider their breakfast without a glass of milk. Right now, cows, buffalos, goats and sheep provide most of the world’s milk. But soon, people could get milk from roaches(蟑螂).
That isn’t as crazy as it might sound. New research shows this “milk” is super-nutritious. What’s more, some scientists have already begun referring to a lot of insects as source of milk.
In 2004, Subramanian Ramaswamy started studying milk crystals found inside the roach. At the time, he was teaching biochemistry at the University of Iowa City.
To learn more about the milk crystal from roaches, the scientists used X-rays to look at the atoms in it. The data basically revealed the chemical recipe of the roach crystal. They showed that roach milk is a “complete food”. It contains sugar with a fatty acid stuck to it. Fatty acids are the building blocks of fats. The protein in the milk is also full of essential amino(氨基的) acids, which are the building blocks of proteins. Since our bodies can’t produce the “essential” ones, we need to get them from our food. And so do baby roaches.
Barbara Stay, a biologist at Iowa University, also worked on the new study. She says the new data show that the roach milk is “three times more nutritious than cow’s milk and four times more nutritious than buffalo’s milk”.
Ramaswamy would like to see roach milk turned into a protein supplement to feed hungry people. But not everyone is confident that it can be done.
Marcel Dicke studies insects as a potential source of human food at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Dicke says this is a “sound study”. However, in his opinion, “Extracting(提取) milk from roaches can only likely be done in a destructive way with only small quantities”. That means you’d have to raise and kill many bugs to get even tiny quantities of the milk.
1.What is the opinion of the scientists about milk in Paragraph 2?
A. Many insects are sources of milk. B. Milk is an important part of breakfast.
C. Milk from insects is the most nutritious. D. Milk from insects is well accepted now.
2.What can we know about the use of roach milk in life?
A. It will replace the milk from animals like cows.
B. Scientists think it the key to solving world hunger.
C. All people don’t think it can be used in life soon.
D. Most people depend on roach milk fro protein.
3.According to Marcel Dicke, extracting insect milk on a large scale is ________.
A. simple B. challenging C. safe D. necessary
4.What should be the best title for the text?
A. Roach milk has been found scientifically B. Roach milk could be produced industrially
C. Roach milk could be a new super food D. Roach milk will be widely used soon
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