Advantages Of Goat Milk

Milk is a type of nutritious drink which provides many health benefits to human. For instance, milk is the great source of calcium which helps to strengthen the teeth and bones in our body. Among all the sources of milk, cow milk has been considered as the most commonly found and popular milk. However, there are some groups of people who cannot consume cow milk due to the lactose intolerance issue and even sensitivity towards cow milk. Thus, more people started to pay attention to goat milk as the alternative for cow milk. In fact, goat milk is more digestible than cow milk due to the smaller fat globules of goat milk that contribute to the greater surface area and allow the lipases attack the lipids more rapidly (Jooyandeh & Aberoumand, 2010).

Goat milk is a better alternative for people that have lactose intolerance because it has lower lactose content compared to cow milk (Getaneh, Mebrat, Wubie, & Kendie, 2016). Besides that, goat milk also has different protein property from cow milk which allows people suffer from cow milk allergy to have another choice of drinking milk. The lactalbumin protein in cow milk is the main cause to the cow milk allergic. Since goat milk have a different structure of lactalbumin protein, the people who are allergic to cow milk can consume goat milk without suffering the allergic response caused by consuming cow milk (Getaneh, Mebrat, Wubie, & Kendie, 2016). Goat milk is also rich in vitamins and minerals in which it contains higher level of Calcium and Phosphorous than both human and cow milk (Claeys, et al., 2014 ). Thus, goat milk has a greater ability to strengthen the bone in human body. On the other hand, goat milk also has greater level of Vitamin A, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and pantothenate. According to Jooyandeh and Aberoumand (2010), if a human infant fed solely on goat milk, the infant will be oversupplied with nutrients in relation to the FAO-WHO