Roaches...

[kinyonga]

"In exchange for living a life of relative comfort inside the cockroach's fatty tissue, the bacteroides manufacture all the vitamins and amino acids the cockroach needs to live. This arrangement allows the cockroach to dine on just about anything it finds, without concern for its lack of nutritional value."...
https://www.thoughtco.com/fascinating-facts-about-cockroaches-1968524

Very interesting info...
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/cockroach_faq.html
https://www.researchgate.net/public..._Composition_of_Alternative_Invertebrate_Prey
http://milkgenomics.org/article/cockroach-mothers-produce-nutrient-dense-milk-crystals/

 

[nightanole]

Gotta loving being able to use uric acid.

 

[Extensionofgreen]

Awesome links! Got my brain gears turning about how this relates to our thoughts about Vitamin A conversion and delivery to chameleons. Perhaps cockroaches, but not all species of roaches have these bacteria. It makes sense for scavengers and opportunists to have bacteria, and we already know that roaches and other species that feed on wood or foliage have special bacteria for digesting cellulose. I’m pretty sure roaches, such as orange heads live in caves and consume the bats and others wildlife that falls onto the substrate of frass and guano. I bet those roaches have different bacteria profiles and that the A they get from eating bat livers is deposited somewhere in their bodies. I’m going to chew on this all day!

 

[kinyonga]

@Extensionofgreen maybe we should all chew on some roaches and get that bacteria in our guts too so we can get all the vitamins we need made for us too?

 

[Extensionofgreen]

@kinyonga , lol!
I’m willing to swallow some whole, but unless they are cooked to crunchy goodness, I won’t be doing much chewing.

 

[kinyonga]

@Extensionofgreen If you cook them the bacteria will be dead!

 

[Extensionofgreen]

I considered that, so it would be down the hatch, whole and raw, maybe lubricated with some EVOO or grape seed oil to guard against those spiky legs.

 

[timw1]

I vote for a roach kombucha smoothie, with yogurt and frozen blueberry's of course!