More About Goat Milk

Hay Dairies goat milk is fresh, pure and highly nutritious. It is absolutely natural and contains no additives. It is an ideal alternative to human milk and can be used for cooking. Goat milk is suitable for people with lactose intolerance and those who are allergic to cow milk. Numerous scientific studies show goat milk to be beneficial for health of people of all ages.

Goat milk is known to be more easily digestible compared to cow milk. Its fat globules are smaller than cow milk and lacks a protein agglutinin. This difference is a reason why goat milk does not require homogenization which is commonly carried out for cow milk which otherwise would partition itself into two distinct layers.

Research appears to show that goat milk contains more essential fatty acids, such as linoleic and arachidonic acids and it has a greater percentage of medium and short-chain saturated fatty acids when compared to cow milk. There are also differences in milk proteins of goat and cow milk. In particular is alpha-s-1-casein in goat milk with its softer curd formation compare to cow milk. Together, these differences indicate that the fats and proteins of goat milk are more easily digestible than that of cow milk.

Like human milk and cow milk, goat milk is highly nutritious. It contains a broad range of minerals and vitamins as well as the nutritional values found in most milk. Milk is the main source of dietary calcium in human nutrition. It is, however, interesting to find that goat milk contains less sodium but more potassium than cow milk.

With a better understanding of the various protein components found in goat milk, we now know that not only the lactalbumin, but all the other protein components contribute to reducing milk allergy and intolerance that we find in cow milk feeding for infants. It is a likely reason why an infant intolerant to a product from cow milk can do well on goat milk.

When a mother does not lactate enough to feed a new infant, doctors would normally turn to cow milk product as the supplement. And in cases where infants are intolerant to cow milk, an alternative is to change to vegetable protein soy-based formula. However, some infants with cow milk intolerance also react adversely to soy products. Goat milk appears to provide an answer as it is found that many who are allergic to cow milk can tolerate goat milk.

Fresh goat milk is wholesome and is consumed by people of all ages. In spite of the occasional characteristic odour noticed of goat milk, it has a number of advantages over cow milk. For people in Singapore, it definitely offers a great alternate choice.