Table 5.

Fat globule size of milk from different mammalian species^#.

	Ruminants						Nonruminants		Human
Property	Cattle	Buffalo	Goat	Sheep	Red deer	Camel	Horse	Donkey
Fat globule diameter (μm)	2.8–4.6	4.1–8.7	2.6–3.7A	3.0–4.6	2.7–6.6A	3.0	2–3	1–10	4

^#Source: Adapted and modified from Claeys et al. (19) and Crowley et al. (13).

Values derived from other references are represented by uppercase case letters: A, Roy et al. (29).