Every time you go to the grocery store, it seems like there’s a new type of milk. These milks come from animals, or vegetables or nuts. There’s oat milk, macadamia milk, hemp milk and pea milk. There’s goat milk, and there’s even cockroach milk — not commercially available yet, which must be a relief for the squeamish.

But the newest soon-to-be trendy milk comes from camels.

Camel milk might sound strange — but one taste will get you over the hump. Demand in the United States is growing for this alternative milk because of its health benefits. Bloomberg News reports that camel milk has five times the vitamin C and 10 times the iron as cow’s milk, according to the Australian Camel Industry Association, and it doesn’t contain the whey proteins that contribute to dairy allergies.

To read the rest of the story, please go to: Washington Post