The milk from a camel is tasty and can help diabetics
A Sunday Telegraph reader shares his views on camel milk.
A Mongolian family and two Bactrian camels stand on grasslands in the Gobi, Mongolia, 1961 Photo: Corbis
SIR – While the wild Bactrian camel in China and Mongolia is much too timid and critically endangered to be milked, its domestic double-humped Bactrian cousin and the Dromedary camel (report, July 11) both provide milk that is much more than just palatable.
Camel milk is known to arrest, though not cure, diabetes, and, by drinking a litre of camel milk a day, some diabetics have been able to give up insulin.
In addition, the late Jasper Evans, who owned the Ol Maisor ranch in Kenya and 250 camels, invented a wonderfully potent drink called Maisor Mist. This is made from camel’s milk, sweetened condensed milk and brandy in more or less equal quantities.
This not only vastly improved inter-tribal relationships in Kenya, but it also induced a very sound sleep.
John HareWild Camel Protection FoundationBenenden, Kent
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