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Title: Donkey milk apparently closest to human milk
Post by: TylerDurden on December 26, 2014, 02:20:22 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2887306/Could-DONKEY-MILK-elixir-life.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2887306/Could-DONKEY-MILK-elixir-life.html)

Title: Re: Donkey milk apparently closest to human milk
Post by: PaleoPhil on December 27, 2014, 05:58:25 am

Thanks for that, Tyler.

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Donkey milk is similar to mare milk and human breast milk in that it is relatively poor in protein and fat but rich in lactose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_milk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_milk)

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Use of donkey’s milk for a fermented beverage with lactobacilli http://tinyurl.com/pnmsltz (http://www.researchgate.net/publication/41701610_Use_of_donkeys_milk_for_a_fermented_beverage_with_lactobacilli)

Because horse and donkey milks are so carby, they ferment well. Fermented horse milk (airag, kumis) is a traditional Eurasian beverage going back thousands of years. Some moderners have been rediscovering this ancestral beverage:
(http://schnitzelandvegemite.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/img_4422-small.jpg?w=560)http://schnitzelandvegemite.com/2014/09/01/discovering-new-kinds-of-dairy-in-mongolia/ (http://schnitzelandvegemite.com/2014/09/01/discovering-new-kinds-of-dairy-in-mongolia/)