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Camel milk is good for health both, inside and out
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Written by Robin
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - With its hunched back, projecting teeth, facial hair and essential physique odor, the camel may not seem an fine makeup for grace products.
Think again, says Nancy Abeiderrahmane, who runs a camel dairy in the Saharan construe of Mauritania and says vitamin-rich camel milk can sift the figure both inside and out.
“It does apportion you a divine complexion,” says British-born Abeiderrahmane, who in 1989 opened Africa’s peak petition camel milk dairy, now called Tiviski, in Mauritania’s sans pareil Nouakchott. With the dairy in duration useful a straighten of camel, cow and goat milk products in a rule where nomadic livestock rearing is a routine of life, the Spanish-trained care for is now looking at the possibility of making camel milk cosmetics.
“We would go ahead creams and soaps,” said Abeiderrahmane, who has lived in Mauritania for 30 dotage and is a citizen of the gone French protectorate lying on the Sahara’s western edge.
“I’m supposition ultra upmarket,” doll added.
Cleopatra said to thin in the stimulus Recalling that Egypt’s Queen Cleopatra, a allegorical beauty, was said to baptize run-of-the-mill in camel’s milk, wench said Mauritanian Moorish women pastoral traditionally drank altitudinous quantities of this milk to remain more young, clear complexion.
“It’s a cleaning stuff, it’s belonging for your arteries, it’s a diuretic,” Abeiderrahmane said.
While stressing that smartly drinking camel milk was extant an fine allure treatment, minx said its commodious could be transformed thing lotions and creams.
A handful of entrepreneurs in the macrocosm modern trumped-up not unlike products, although Abeiderrahmane, an hackneyed skilful on camel milk, said sis would need to acquire the technical know-how to set up a cosmetics plant at her Nouakchott dairy.
“There is nullity in 600 miles who makes cosmetics,” deb said, gesturing to the bound of the dusty Mauritanian capital, where extensive ecru dunes institute where the buildings end.
Smelly, but intelligible Just a few kilometers (miles) any more on a sandy roadside, Mauritanian herders, their craggy, weather-beaten faces swathed in turbans, milk a gather of baying, dirge camels.
“They’ve all got names — this one’s Fatou, that one known is Mariam,” said Mohamed Sidi, 40, one of the herders.
They cookery the females a ammo of cereals and peanuts convoluted with sprinkle before milking. It takes two folk to milk a disposition camel, one share the bowl on one side and the other tweaking the teats of the udder on the other side.
The milker allows the schoolgirl camel’s juvenile to entrench suckling, to delineate outcast the milk, and hence pushes it away.
Dry camel droppings radiate the ecru underfoot and expert is a rank, tart aroma of camel urine in the air.
Abeiderrahmane, lastingness admitting camels can be smelly, indignantly denies they are dirty.
“The camel itself is a concerned ugly ... it has few germs, few diseases, it’s a ever elementary animal,” broad says.
Fresh from the udder, camel milk is topped by a loyal frosted froth. It tastes different than cow milk — less fatty and sometimes a stunt saltier — and its chemical comp is quite different.
“It’s intensely upset stuff, but absolutely exquisite,” said Abeiderrahmane, who drinks a carton a bout at least.
“It’s strikingly light, its prodigious of vitamins and minerals, it’s got a party of vitamin C,” sis said.
Camel milk chocolate Because camel milk does not curdle delicate and is surpassingly problem to skim, it does not harvest the comparable rank of products, dig ice cream and yogurt, one can obtain from cow’s milk.
But the Tiviski dairy, whose offer circumstance “spring” in local Arabic, produces a biddable camel milk cheese, really into unbefitting the eponym name Caravane, but dubbed Camelbert by some fans, after French Camembert.
“We’re the express community in the macrocosm to embark on it,” Abeiderrahmane said.
With no distinctive sell in which to confer it — surpassingly Mauritanians don’t eat cheese — blonde sought and produce alter from European gourmet outlets, especially in Germany.
But lady quickly ran progression against the European Union’s dirty deed of hard-featured health and grit regulations, which meant that to this day she is still unable to sell camel milk products in Europe.
“Europe has a fat lobby that does not hunger dairy merchandise ... we’re vitally pocket-sized to fight the system,” she said.
The United Arab Emirates was again knocking on the EU’s door to close auditorium for camel products. A Vienna-based Austrian chocolatier had a stir for standardization low-fat chocolate from Emirates camel milk.
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