Nutraceutical and Functional Properties of Camelids’ Milk

In most areas of the world, camelids are considered exotic animals, living only in zoological gardens. Additionally, considering original lands where they were previously bred with specific economic and social aims, today it is possible to detect a reduction their total numbers. Typically as working animals for goods transportation desert regions, source meat milk, recent years, camels have been dismissed due construction new roads motor vehicles, migration nomadic populations from deserts urban zones, choice some autochthonous bovine breeds sources milk. The decline heads seems irreversible. Camels should be valid food marginal areas; peculiar quality parameters showing proper characteristics use this milk human nutrition, can justify breeding them, rather than objects amusement.