Go Organic Goat (Organic Goats Yoghurt)

Member Name: lamorna

Product:	Organic Goats Yoghurt
Date:	10/07/02 (640 review reads)
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Advantages: digestion, cattarrh, low fat

Disadvantages: none, none, none

I feed him well! Morty, my partner that is. He’s a vain kinda man. Hates the fact he’s losing some hair, sucks his stomach in when he glances in the mirror or when a navel-pierced lissom eighteen year old girl is within eye-shot! He plays golf regularly, eats fish five times a week, takes half an aspirin with his Cranberry juice every morning, along with his Cod-Liver-Oil capsule and generally cares about his healthy diet and lifestyle.

However, he eats too fast and drinks too much beer. This results in a dodgy digestive system. You know? Bloated, burpy, gassy plus internal noises! He doesn’t want to know when I occasionally suggest he has an allergy to yeast and he objects instantly as, to him, yeast means beer and not bread.

He was also suffering from mild catarrh, which on top of everything else led to snorty throat clearing noises which would wake me up in the middle of the night. I decided his bodily functions and noises were all getting too much. Fortunately I read an article exactly describing all the symptoms he had. To my amazement it wasn’t yeast he was intolerant to, but it appeared to be dairy foods, in other words any product from a cow!

He accepted my diagnosis with relief as it meant he didn’t have to have me going on about yeast and he could continue with the beer for which there is absolutely no substitute. Fortunately there are alternatives to cheese, milk, butter and yoghurt in the form of Organic Goat, Sheep and even Buffalo products. This is our experience of The Elms Dairy Organic Goat Milk Yoghurt:

One word of warning for any reader who is misled into buying Greek ‘Style’ Yoghurt as this can allow you to think this is made from goat milk. It isn’t, it’s made from cow milk and full of additives and will do no good at all, and if you suffer as he did, it could make these symptoms worse.

Within one day…yes…..one day of eating a smal
l bowl of Organic goat milk yoghurt with breakfast his digestive juices were functioning properly. It was definitely lactose intolerance that caused this weak and distressing digestion. Goat milk is easily digested because of its softer curds and smaller, more easily assimilated fat globules, with less undigested residue left behind in the colon to ferment which can cause the unpleasant symptoms.

Compared with cow milk, goat milk contains 13% more calcium, 25% more vitamin B6, 47% more vitamin A, 134% more potassium and 350% more niacin. It is also higher in chloride, copper and manganese. Organic goat yoghurt is natural and does not contain gums, gelatine, powdered milk, refined sugar, preservatives, artificial colours or flavourings. The consistency of the yoghurt is quite thin and doesn’t taste ‘goaty’ and is great in cooking where I would normally have used Crème Fraiche or Fromage frais, adding a teaspoon of mixed cornflour to thicken the sauce and prevent separation.

I simultaneously bought semi-skimmed organic goat milk, hard and soft goat cheeses and a dairy and Soya free spread (Morty is allergic to Soya too). His catarrh vanished as well and he couldn’t believe the difference this one simple alteration to our diet had made to his feeling of well being.

So perhaps you are thinking that it can’t be that effective eh? A few weeks into this new lactose-free period I was too lazy to schlep up the High Street to the Health Food shop to buy our Organic Goat Products. I bought the Greek ‘Style’ Yoghurt from the Supermarket instead, and do you know what? All the symptoms returned immediately. It was almost worth the discomfort he suffered to really prove that Organic goat products really do work. He is convinced.

One week, my Health Food shop had no Organic Goat Yoghurt in stock but instead recommended a Sheep Milk Yoghurt produced on the same farm. I bought it.

I don̵
7;t know how to describe this. The next morning, spooning the sheep yoghurt into a breakfast bowl the smell of lamb, sheep, and in fact old shaggy sheep was overpowering. It smelt like well hung mutton chops fried in sheep dip! I thought he might not notice the stink, but hardly likely was it? Being a brave little soldier, he commented on the odorous ‘sheepy’ smell and spooned half a jar of Heather Honey into it, mixed it well and gamely tried to eat it. It was no good, he couldn’t. I had to open all the windows and spray wildly with a room freshener and light perfumed candles at breakfast. The smell of sheep was so strong I couldn’t even bring myself to make a lamb curry and use it in the sauce. I binned it.

Organic goat yoghurt, milk and cheese contain no growth hormones and no preservatives. These products are suitable for young children, those with any lactose intolerance, those who have gastric ulcers and those who are concerned about their cholesterol levels. The organic goat milk is better in coffee than tea, water it down for tea, even the semi-skimmed, and the hard and soft goat cheeses are lovely to cook with in the same way as cow products are.

Morty now has a good digestion, no catarrh and I get to sleep at night. So what next? Get him off the yeast? No, I don’t think so, do you?

The Elms Dairy Organic Goats Milk Yoghurt
Ingredients: Pasteurised Goat Milk: Live Culture
Organic since 1986
Committed to Keeping the Environment
GMO Free: BA Live
Friars Oven Farm
West Compton
Somerset
BA4 4PD

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