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Would Marmite survive the apocalypse? The cockroach question

Would Marmite survive the apocalypse? The cockroach question

I have always joked that after the bombs drop, the cockroaches will be sitting around eating Marmite. It turns out both halves of that joke are half-true. Cockroaches really are more radiation-tolerant than us, though they are nowhere near the best in the insect world, and they would not survive ground zero anyway. Marmite, meanwhile, is genuinely one of the hardest foods on the planet to kill. I checked the science on both.

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