{"id":548,"date":"2010-08-13T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2010-08-12T22:50:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T05:50:25","slug":"goat-milk-are-you-kidding-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Goat Milk? Are You “Kidding” Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get it? Goat milk – kid-ding? Sorry, I couldn’t resist the pun. Anyway, the subject of goat’s milk as a substitute for cow’s milk has been getting some press lately in both consumer and trade publications so I thought I would do some investigation and see what all the hype was about.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As it’s important to compare nutritional information,\u00a0I went to our local Whole Foods and bought a quart of Meyenberg low-fat goat’s milk <\/a>and a half-gallon of\u00a0Whole Foods’ 365 brand low-fat cow’s milk. Both are free from antibiotics and recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH),\u00a0a synthetic (man-made) hormone that is marketed to dairy farmers to increase milk production in cows.\u00a0According to the Meyenberg web site, their low-fat goat’s milk is higher in calcium, Vitamins A\u00a0and B, and potassium than cow\u2019s milk. However, if you review their nutritional label and compare it to the 365 cow’s milk, those claims do not stand up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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365 Low-fat Milk from Whole Foods<\/p><\/div>\n

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Meyenberg Low-fat Goat Milk<\/p><\/div>\n

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This particular brand of goat’s milk, when compared to this particular brand of cow’s milk, has the same amount of Vitamin A but less calcium and contains no Vitamin B or potassium. I’m not sure why Meyenberg is making these particular claims,\u00a0but it is a good lesson that you should take the time to read the nutritional facts panel and not just the claims that appear on the package or a web site.<\/div>\n

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Here is a nutritional comparison of the two products:\u00a0<\/p>\n