--- title: Camel Milk is a Thing and Costs $18 a Bottle description: It’s supposedly really good for you and at that price it damn well better be canonical: https://time.com/2870188/camel-milk-is-a-thing-and-costs-18-a-bottle/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-13T14:50:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:44.797Z og:title: Camel Milk is a Thing and Costs $18 a Bottle og:description: It’s supposedly really good for you and at that price it damn well better be og:url: https://time.com/2870188/camel-milk-is-a-thing-and-costs-18-a-bottle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt598d5bf2c27631ab/69869783d0b6f2708a304d81/ec5942-001.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4097 og:image:height: 2305 og:image:alt: EC5942-001 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Camel Milk is a Thing and Costs $18 a Bottle twitter:description: It’s supposedly really good for you and at that price it damn well better be twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt598d5bf2c27631ab/69869783d0b6f2708a304d81/ec5942-001.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Camel Milk is a Thing and Costs $18 a Bottle > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=16beab10-d04f-4256-b925-c1762ad87a2c&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jun 13, 2014 2:50 PM UTC  Camel Camel Gk Hart/vicky Hart—Getty Images  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jun 13, 2014 2:50 PM UTC Good news for all you people out there with dreams of traversing the Sahara in a pre-modern caravan—now you can live out at least part of the fantasy by [drinking](http://desertfarms.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions) camel milk. The California-based distributor Desert Farms sells camel milk directly and in more than 40 Whole Foods stores in California, reports The Wall Street [_Journal_](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/got-camel-milk-2014-06-13?dist=beforebell), with more locations to come. Desert Farms sources camel milk from a variety of camel ranches (yes, they exist) around the country. Part of the reason you haven’t seen a lot of camel milk for sale in the U.S. is that as recently as 2009 it was [banned](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB124821760380770121) by the Food and Drug Administration. According to Desert Farms, camel milk is 50% lower in fat and saturated fat than cows milk and is “easy to digest.” One thing camel milk ain’t is cheap, at $18 a bottle. And why is it so expensive, you ask? “Camels don’t give lots of milk, but what they do give is precious,” Desert Farms says in the first sentence of its website’s FAQ section. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2870188/camel-milk-is-a-thing-and-costs-18-a-bottle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2870188/camel-milk-is-a-thing-and-costs-18-a-bottle/"},"headline":"Camel Milk is a Thing and Costs $18 a Bottle","datePublished":"2014-06-13T14:50:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:44.797Z","description":"It's supposedly really good for you and at that price it damn well better be","url":"https://time.com/2870188/camel-milk-is-a-thing-and-costs-18-a-bottle/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food","FDA"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt598d5bf2c27631ab/69869783d0b6f2708a304d81/ec5942-001.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt598d5bf2c27631ab/69869783d0b6f2708a304d81/ec5942-001.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"EC5942-001","caption":"EC5942-001","creditText":"Gk Hart/vicky Hart—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2870188/camel-milk-is-a-thing-and-costs-18-a-bottle/","name":"Camel Milk is a Thing and Costs $18 a Bottle"}}]}] ```