Derived from the belief that breast milk is the best because of its natural and comprehensive nutritional value, we insists on gentle production, the goat milk we use to produce our formulas is unskimmed and less processed, retaining more natural nutrition.
New Zealand is the kingdom of best quality dairy products. It is known for its balmy weather – the summer is warm, moist and sunny, and the winter is pleasant. Waikato region, where Karihome originates from, has its longest river in New Zealand. With this nourishing environment, pasture thrives and our goats are particularly well bred, producing rich nutritious milk.
There are several lines of evidence that the strength and type of the immune response to goat and cow milk might differ. For example, children allergic to cow milk required nearly five times more goat milk to trigger an adverse reaction.
Milk proteins consist of whey and casein proteins. Casein produces a curd when in the stomach. It is well known that goat milk produces a very loose curd structure with a high proportion of water and is easily broken apart.
Unlike cows, goats have the same secretion method as humans – Apocrine secretion. More bioactives are secreted with goat milk, such as Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF), Polyamine, and Free Amino Acids.
DGC has end to end production facilities on its site in Hamilton, New Zealand. And this is where all Karihome goat milk products originates from.