Goat Milk Benefits

Drinking goat milk daily provides your body with a continuous supply of essential vitamins and nutrients, including Vitamin D, protein, potassium and calcium. Once you're familiar with goat milk benefits, you may become a goat milk drinker for life.

The Facts

Unlike cow's milk, which contains large globules of hard-to-digest fat, goat's milk has smaller particles of fat and is naturally homogenized (fat globules are suspended in milk).

Features

Although cow milk has more folic acid and vitamin B-12, according to AskDrSears.Com, goat milk contains more calcium, potassium, copper, niacin, selenium, vitamin A and vitamin B-6 than cow's milk. (See Reference 1 below.)

Significance

According to a 2007 study conducted by the Department of Physiology at the University of Granada, goat's milk improves your body's ability to digest and use essential minerals like iron and magnesium, which help prevent diseases such as anemia (a lack of red blood cells). (See Reference 2 below.)

Function

When you consume milk, your stomach acids cause the proteins to form a curd in your stomach. Goat milk produces a softer curd than cow milk, so people who have problems digesting cow milk can digest goat milk easier.

Considerations

If you or your child is lactose-intolerant and can't consume cow's milk, you may be able to drink goat's milk without ill effects. That's because goat's milk has a lower percentage of lactose than cow's milk.

References

• AskDrSears.Com: Got Goat's Milk?
• The Science Daily: University of Granada Milk Study