Sheeps milk

Sheeps milk is notable for FODMAPs, lactose and oxalates. Clear on histamine, tyramine, salicylate, sucrose, oligosaccharides, sorbitol, fructose, nickel and gluten.

Yes — sheeps milk is high in FODMAPs. Sheep milk carries slightly more lactose than cow milk, not less, and it is much richer in solids overall - so a smaller volume delivers the same dose. It is the milk most often assumed to be gentler and the one that measures highest.

Yes — sheeps milk is high in lactose. Sheep milk is reported between 4.2 and 5.4 g of lactose per 100 ml depending on the table and the season - a spread wide enough that a single figure would be a fiction, and every part of it overlaps cow's milk. It is not the lower-lactose option it is sometimes sold as. It is far richer in fat and protein, which is why it makes such dense cheese.

Sheeps milk contains only low levels of oxalates. Sheep's milk contains no oxalate of its own - oxalate is a plant compound and this is not a plant. A milk, and milk is where this axis starts from nothing: the ewe keeps no oxalate in the milk. Drunk as milk or eaten as the cheese it becomes, the answer is the same low. Its calcium even helps the rest of the plate: it binds oxalate from whatever is eaten alongside. Amounts vary by brand and recipe, so always check the label of the exact product.