TWO long established family businesses have collaborated to produce a goats’ milk ice cream.

Acaster Malbis-based Yorvale ice cream and St Helen’s Farm, of Seaton Ross, have pooled their collective expertise to launch the ice cream, which has gone on sale in Waitrose and Ocado online.

A spokeswoman said goat’s milk had slightly different proteins to cows’ milk and contained ten per cent less lactose, and so was suitable for people on a diet free of cows’ milk.