Does goat milk contain lactose?
A.: Milk produced by mammals, breast milk included, contains lactose (sugar). In any case, goat milk can be drunk by those people who have been mistakenly diagnosed as suffering from an intolerance to lactose (in this case a pseudo-intolerance). What is possible is that, thanks to its high digestibility (if compared to cow’s milk), goat milk’s residues are but very few in the intestine, so fermentation phenomena in the colon do not occur, which would otherwise result in a number of unpleasant symptoms due to pseudo-intolerance, such as flatulence, diarrhoea, constipation etc. Q.: As for its nutritional content, what about the differences between goat milk and cow’s milk? A.: Goat milk and cow’s milk are different as for concentration and type of nutrients. If compared to cow’s milk, goat milk contains 13% more calcium, 25% more vitamin B6, 47% more vitamin A, 134% more potassium and 350% more niacin (vit. B3). The proportion calcium/phosphorous (1:3) is very similar to breast milk’s an
