Are you ready for milk chocolate made with camel’s milk? Camel milk chocolate is due to hit store shelves after an Austrian chocolate maker joined forces with an Arabic camel farm. The chocolate, which is to hit the Arabic market this autumn, is called Al Nassma, after the cool wind that blows in the desert. And the chocolate is expected to be introduced to the EU market after its launch in Abu Dhabi in the autumn. ...

Vienna-based Chocolatier Hochleitner has developed the sweet treats by using milk from the United Arab Emirates and money from the Abu Dhabi royal family.

“We have come so far, and what was once thought of as a crazy idea has become a huge project,” says Johann Georg Hochleitner of the project, “particularly in the Arabic world where there is a potential market of about 200 million people.”

Apparently, camel’s milk is a good alternative to cow’s milk because it is lower in fat and sweeter. Hochleitner added, “Powdered camel milk is sent from Abu Dhabi to Austria where we produce the raw chocolate and then send it back for processing to a factory in the middle of the desert.”

I will never look at a camel the same way again.