Whole goat milk is used to retain the milk fat before adding lactose, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. Some vegetable oils are still required to top up the essential unsaturated fatty acids in goat milk,1 but the goat milk fat is not removed. The inclusion of goat milk fat retains the medium chain saturated fatty acids in goat milk,2 which are more readily absorbed than long-chain saturated fatty acids.3
The use of whole goat milk also means that nucleotides4 are also retained. As a result, there is no need to add nucleotides when making formula from whole goat milk.
1 Prosser et al, 2010
2 Prosser et al, 2010
3 Jensen et al 1986; Lindquist & Hernell, 2010
4 Prosser, McLaren et al. 2008; Gill, Indyk and Manley-Harris, 2012
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