Vit A levels in Goat & Cow milk + other vitamins...

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http://drinc.ucdavis.edu/html/milkg/milkg-1.shtml

" It is remarkable that caprine milk derives its vitamin A potency entirely

from the vitamin itself and entirely lacks the precursor carotenoid pigments

characteristic of bovine milk, which also causes goat's milk and milkfat to

be much whiter in color than the milk of the cow. "

TABLE 4. Average vitamin content of goat, cow and human milk.

Vitamin Cow Goat Human

Vitamin A(1)(2) 1560.0 (1380) 2074.0 (1850) 1898.0 (2410)

Vitamin D 33 23.7 22.0

Thiamine 0.44 ( .38) 0.40 ( .48) 0.16 (0.14)

Riboflavin 1.75 (1.61) 1.84 (1.38) 0.36 ( .36)

Nicotinic Acid 0.94 ( .84) 1.87 (2.7) 1.47 (1.77)

Vitamin B 6 0.64 ( .42) 0.07 ( .46) 0.10 ( .11)

Pantotheine 3.46 (3.13) 3.44 (3.1) 1.84 (2.23)

Biotin 0.031 0.039 0.008

Folic Acid 0.0028 ( 0.005) 0.0024 (0.001) 0.0020 (0.005)

Vitamin B 12 0.0043 (.0036) 0.0006 (.00065) 0.0003 (,.00045)

Ascorbic Acid 21.1 (14.7) 15.0(13,0) 43.0 (50)

Choline 121.0 150.0 90.0

Inositol 110.0 210.0 330.0

(1) Vitamin A expressed in International Units/liter; all others as

mg/liter. (2) Numbers in ( ) are from the USDA Handbook 8-1 (1976).