Placeholder. Chinese researchers are turning a 2,000-year-old traditional-medicine ingredient — cockroach powder — into a modern novel protein source for pet food, treating an ancient TCM material as a legitimate sustainable-protein candidate rather than starting from scratch with lab-engineered alternatives.
What we've found so far: Dali University researchers developed a pet feed formulation using cockroach powder, explicitly drawing on its documented multi-millennia history in traditional Chinese medicine as the starting point for modern pet-nutrition research.
Open research: Get direct comment from the Dali University research team on current development stage and any safety/regulatory hurdles; compare to Western insect-protein pet food brands (cricket-based, etc.) on cost and acceptance.