Who doesn’t like ice cream? It’s a universally beloved treat, but recent research suggests that ice cream made from horse milk might offer surprising health benefits over the traditional cow milk version.
A team of food scientists at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Poland has found that making ice cream with horse milk instead of cow milk is a viable food choice.
In their study, published on the open-access site PLOS ONE, the group created four ice cream varieties using horse milk and different types of bacteria.
Benefits of horse milk ice cream
Traditionally, ice cream is made by adding cow’s milk to cow’s cream along with other ingredients.
The result is a sweet treat popular around the globe. In this new study, the team found that replacing cow’s milk with milk from a horse and adding it to cow’s cream is a viable food choice.
Consumption of horse milk is not unheard of; many cultures worldwide have used it instead of cow’s milk for centuries, and many believe it has yet-to-be-proven health benefits.
Prior research has shown that it is closer in makeup to human milk than cow’s milk and that people with allergies to cow’s milk can safely drink horse milk.
Horse milk also contains beneficial enzymes and proteins not found in cow milk and is lower in fat.
Because of that, scientists have been considering the possibility of using horse milk instead of cow milk in various food products.
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