Article: Goat-milk products grow in popularity

If you're lactose intolerant or prefer items from health-food stores, goat's milk may be on your shopping list.

"A lot of health-conscious people look for raw goat's milk rather than cow's milk," explained Deneise Goss. She and husband, Richard Goss, own Red Gate Farm in Palmyra, a farm with approximately 40 does (female goats).

Jim Dell, a spokesman for the Food Safety Division of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, indicated that goat's milk differs from cow's milk in the percentage of lactose and fat.

"Goat's milk is also naturally homogenized, meaning there is a minimum separation of fat globules in the milk. A cream line will develop but it takes days whereas it only takes ...

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