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Camel milk, the new superfood

As Amul readies to retail camel milk, it's time to adopt this superfood

Camel milk, the new superfood: White gold from the desert
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Nikita Puri
Over 10 years ago, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations had foreseen a great future for camel milk. “The potential is massive,” the organisation's dairy and meat expert, Anthony Bennett had said. Camel milk is 'pure nectar' for devotees, and “milk is money,” he claimed. 
 
Bennett's comments, in 2006, were based on the fact that camel's milk, though in short supply even back then, had enough health benefits to motivate people to travel hundreds of kilometres for it.
 
A year later, Bikaner-based diabetologist R P Agrawal, who has done a number of studies on camel