Protein and recovery sources derived from goat’s milk are incredibly like human milk in composition and are easily digestible — even during or after tough workouts and races. The composition and size of the fat globules in goat milk are 5 to 10 times smaller than those found in cow milk. Because of this, the human body can digest goat milk in as few as 20 minutes, versus a lengthy two to three hours to digest cow milk.

‘Goats are very similar to humans in size and weight. Cow’s clearly are not.

Researchers from the University of Granada discovered that one reason goat milk is so easily processed by the human body is due to its hypo-allergenic properties. Their research shows that, like human milk, goat’s milk contains less lactose and less alpha-s1 casein (a protein commonly associated with a heightened immune response to dairy).

In addition, Norwegian researchers discovered that when exposed to the human digestive enzymes found in stomach and intestinal juices, the beta-lactose-globulin in goat’s milk is digested three times faster than the beta-lactose-globulin in cow milk (like casein, beta-lactose-globulin is a milk protein that can cause an allergic reaction).