Healthy camel milk could give cows the hump

The EU will send a team of inspectors to check the standard of camel farms and the safety of its milk early next year and exports could begin soon after. 

Apart from the novelty factor, camel’s milk, which is slightly saltier than traditional milk, could be a big hit in the UK given it has less fat and cholesterol than cow’s milk.

It also contains three times more vitamin C, more vitamin B and ten times more iron than cow’s milk. And it can be digested by people who are lactose intolerant.

A spokesman from one of the leading camel milk companies in UAE, famous for its ‘Camelicious’ brand, said Europe could be a lucrative market but added camel’s milk could never compete with cow’s milk. 

“Our aim was never to push cow’s milk out of the shelves in Europe. We will never have quantity,” the spokesman told a Dubai newspaper.

Europe’s main concern had been over foot-and-mouth diseases but studies by a Dubai veterinary college have proved one-humped camels are resistant to the disease.

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