Camels dairy farming is a growing industry in Somalia. Camel milk is full of vitamins and minerals, nutritionists say.

Photo illustration Behold the camel — giver of milk long known for its abundant supply of vitamins, proteins and minerals — and in some cases for sustaining life itself. Yes, camel milk.

Raw camel milk is an excellent source of essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, and more. It also contains beneficial fatty acids and proteins that can help ...

Desert Farms, a California-based company that ships camel milk to drink, sells 16 ounce fresh or frozen bottles of milk for $18. To buy a 200-gram bag of powdered milk from them, it'll cost you $74.

The camel may not seem an ideal model for beauty products. Think again, says Nancy Abeiderrahmane, who runs a camel dairy in the Saharan state of Mauritania and says vitamin-rich camel milk can ...

Mineral content is also high: An analysis from the National Nutrition Institute in Cairo found that camel milk had the most iron, zinc and copper of five milks tested, including human milk.

If asked to think of a camel, many will invariably call up the emblematic image of a humped animal crossing the horizon in a blazing desert. What they probably won't think of is a cold glass of milk.

In a Dubai café, patrons sip camel-milk lattes, camel-ccinos and shakes made with camel milk. The newly opened Cafe2Go is one of the first to put camel milk on its menu and it seems to be passing ...

Fresh from the udder, camel milk is topped by a thick white froth. It tastes different to cow milk, less fatty and sometimes a bit saltier, and its chemical composition is very different.

We can’t say for certain whether camel milk “cures” diabetes, or if it would reduce inflammation if a person with type 2 diabetes regularly consumed it.