Goat Milk vs Cow’s Milk

For years, physicians and nutritionists have known the superior health characteristics of goat milk and goat milk products.

Goat Milk is More Digestible Than Cow Milk

The average curd tension of cow milk is 70 grams, while for goat milk it is 36 grams.

• fat molecules have thinner, more fragile membranes, and the molecules themselves are much smaller.
• Goat milk has more acid buffering capacity than cow milk, soy infant formula and nonprescription antacid drugs.
• Goat milk has a higher content of short and medium fatty acids, such as capric and caprylic, known to inhibit Candida infections.

Goat milk is inherently more suitable for human consumption because it is non-allergenic and it’s nutrients are more readily accessible.

Children fed goat milk surpass those on cows milk for weight gain, stature, skeletal mineraliztion, bond density, blood plasma vitamin A, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and hemaglobin concentrations.

Goat Milk is Non Allergenic

• 7% of U.S. children show symptoms of cow milk allergy as wheezing, congestion, frequent ear infections, eczema, skin rashes and digestive troubles.
• Goat milk does not have the protein that is the main stimulant of allergenic reactions, b-lactoglobulin
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Further Nutritional Comparison

The Table below shows that goat milk is higher in vitamin A, calcium, potassium and copper than cow milk. It contains the same amount of iron, and a lower amount of folic acid. However, a linear comparison of the nutrients fails to show how they function physiologically. Goat milk contains many carrier proteins that help nutrients like iron and folic acid cross the intestinal wall. The importance of these carrier proteins was recognized approximately 30 years ago, yet few nutritionists or physicians are aware that they exist, possibly because the activity of these carrier proteins is destroyed during pasteurization. Nonetheless, Mother Nature has included these proteins in raw milk to assure that the growing infant has the proper mineral nutrition. Studies have shown that unprocessed goat milk needs no supplementation to support mineral nutrition in the growing infant. In fact, goat milk promotes higher bone mineral density than does cow milk.

A literal reading of the nutritional comparison given below may be misleading. In reality it is the small molecular size of goat milk components and their superior bio-availability that create the unique functionality of goat milk.