Camel milk has 3x the amount of vitamin C and 10x the amount of iron. Unlike cow milk, camel milk is loaded with probiotics, antioxidants, unsaturated fatty acids and an insulin-like protein similar to that found in human breast milk.
The FDA recently approved the sale of camel milk in the US but I can't find it anywhere. Has anyone tried it? If so, where did you get it and how does it taste?
Good camel milk tastes like semi-skimmed cow's milk, but much cleaner. I have no idea where to purchase it in the US, in the UK we get a very limited supply from a Dutch herd.
The major camel dairy in the UAE, which uses the brand name Camelicious, sells all it can produce in the domestic market, although I know they are working on EU approval, and will expand the herd once that is achieved; whether that means they'll export to the US as well I can't say.
Sorry I can't be more help, but it is good stuff, so I wish you luck on your search.
interesting. my parents are from india where they drink water buffalo milk. i heard it's good for you 'cause it's LOADED with fat (which is exactly what a skinny distance runner needs). camel milk sounds cool.
it'd probably be really expensive. maybe you should start a business. get some camels and put them in arizona. sell the milk to AZ and So Cal.
Healthy milk = raw milk.
I am sure goats' milk is healthier than cows' milk, and I'm open to camels' milk being healthier than either of those. But I'd rather have raw, unpasteurised, unhomogenized cows' milk than have any "healthier" milk that is pasteurised.
My nephew has some dietary restrictions and his parents (my brother and sister-in-law) picked up some camel milk for him earlier this year (maybe late last year?).
The purchased it from a farm/farmer in Ohio. Near Cleveland IIRC. It is stupidly expensive from what they told me after the purchase.
In the breasts of a female camel.
Wisen Heimer wrote:
In the breasts of a female camel.
quite. I wouldnt have thought this was a terribly difficult question
Have fun getting listeria and tuberculosis.
Pantman wrote:
Healthy milk = raw milk.
I am sure goats' milk is healthier than cows' milk, and I'm open to camels' milk being healthier than either of those. But I'd rather have raw, unpasteurised, unhomogenized cows' milk than have any "healthier" milk that is pasteurised.
Not to mention typhoid fever, diphtheria, and brucellosis
Pantman wrote:
Healthy milk = raw milk.
I am sure goats' milk is healthier than cows' milk, and I'm open to camels' milk being healthier than either of those. But I'd rather have raw, unpasteurised, unhomogenized cows' milk than have any "healthier" milk that is pasteurised.
Certainly raw milk is far healthier than milk that has been superheated, but why do you surmise that goat's milk is healthier than raw milk from grass-fed cows?
http://www.realmilk.com/My favorite milk, btw, is not milk at all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_milkAghast wrote:
Not to mention typhoid fever, diphtheria, and brucellosis
Yeah, and vitmain C can cause kidney stones...
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Certainly raw milk is far healthier than milk that has been superheated, but why do you surmise that goat's milk is healthier than raw milk from grass-fed cows?
I was saying that I'd prefer raw cows' milk rather than non-raw goats' milk. Sorry if that was unclear. But if both were raw I'd go for goat over cow - find it to be more digestible.