Manufacture of Dairy and Non-Dairy Camel Milk Products

Background

Camel milk is popular in the world specially in the Middle Eastern, Asian, and African cultures (Zibaee et al., 2015). Camel milk is receiving more recognition as a global product in optimizing human health as drinking milk (Nikkhah, 2011). Many studies indicated that camel milk has benefits and nutritional values and traditionally prescribed as a cure for disease recovery such as kidney, liver, cancer, and children diseases (Zibaee et al., 2015). In the present book, the potential therapeutic and disease prevention properties of camel milk will be discussed in details in Chapter 7 and 8. Yagil (1982) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, 2008) predicted that dairy products manufactured from camel milk will appear on European supermarket shelves. In addition, the demand on camel milk is increased from Sahara to Mongolia despite the production arrived approximately to 5.4 million tonnes annually, but it is still greatly inadequate. Therefore, many sectors and local investments in the Middle East and the Western world would made effort to meet demands and create gainful markets (Zibaee et al., 2015).