Almond milk is not full of almonds!!!

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Im not sure what has happened here, I normally scour a product for ingredients, I dont usually buy stuff with strange stuff in it as a rule, not obsessively but generally because I just buy straight forward basic ingredients

But Im looking to see if non dairy milks might help my GERD so picked up almond and oat milks, thinking they were just that, mushed up almonds and oats

They are not!!

They have tons of strange things in them like gums and stabilisers and what nots. I dont mind the added vitamins and minerals so not talking about them

I should have checked

I dont mind the almond one, I have opened that one first but not sure I would buy again. It doesnt work in tea though.

Agree with you there. Coffee flavoured porridge on the other hand is actually quite nice.

I hate the taste of cow's milk in coffee now that I haven't used it in years. It has a really thin taste whereas oat milks, specifically Oatly but also Califia farms and Minor Figures, have a really creamy composition. They are about the same in fat and calories as a cow's milk, but infinitely more sustainable and also containing beta-glucans which are good for your cholesterol, unlike actual dairy products.

I thought this is a great comparison site:
https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/food-and-drink/article/plant-milks-whats-best-for-your-health-and-the-environment

Yes definitely better after avoiding bready or gluteny or wheaty type products, which Im not really meant to eat anyway.

2/3???? Noooo. Try 2-5% almonds. The rest is water and maybe trace sodium in the food stuff. Lots of other stuff in the cheap stuff. But the actual almonds are a very small %

That’s not a fact. It’s your opinion. I like unsweetened almond and soy milks. Can’t eat oats so I can’t maybe an opinion on that.

cows milk has lactose which is sugar

That link doesnt work for me

Why use dairy milk in your cereal? Same reason. It tastes nice. It’s wet. It has some protein. What is there possibly to get confused about?

Ooh no it’s not nice with sugar in.

I can’t stand cows milk so I drink nut or oat milk. That’s the point of it.

If it’s full of shite then you are buying a shite one. Buy a better one. A good one generally contains coconut milk, water, rice water, sea salt

Me too. Almond milk tastes almondy which is great.

Because some people can't digest any other sort. It's better than having cereal with water on.

Depends what brand you get! Plenish is just almonds, water & sea salt. Same for all their milks (oat, soya etc) minimal ingredients :)

If it was it would be solid. Try almond nut butter?

https://biona.co.uk/products/biona-organic-coconut-milk?variant=40383048155188

I buy this one I thought they were all coconut and water, although some have more water than others

I’m vegan. I like oat milk in coffee but can’t stand it in tea! For tea I find soy milk works well for me. The gums etc are there to stabilise the plant milk, if you make your own you’ll need to give it a good shake and you may find it splits a bit in hot drinks.

Ah I'm not sure why the link didn't work but here's the monstrously long one.

It's like every food in the world; buy the cheap crap version and it's full of shite and tastes shite, but buy the quality version and you get a quality product. Like the difference between hovis loaf of 'poke-your-finger-through' bread vs fresh bakery loaf of bread.

www.which.co.uk/reviews/food-and-drink/article/plant-milks-whats-best-for-your-health-and-the-environment-arP1g7I4yCwi?source_code=911CRJ&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=generic&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21443629630&gbraid=0AAAAADoAS40Ux-iD2sL_-nW6BmI5WJlWu&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-NfDBhDyARIsAD-ILeDfgZzE4UddV5gDKuQEB-7bnxH2_qExO7H1YN8T8TTPfMUtXf-EVK8aAjvGEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds#environmental-impact-of-different-milks-per-litre

I admit Ive caved in and used proper milk for my current cuppa.

Salt and sugar - not the healthiest milk to have out of choice. Allergy sufferers don't have the choice except take it or leave it.

I am starting to worry about iodine, we don't get enough in our diets. Apparently it's an issue across the west. Less so in Japan etc where they eat a lot of sea vegetables and shellfish. It's a mineral nobody seems to think about much.

Because some people like it, the same as any other food or drink?
People love to tear down alternative milks or "be confused" by them for some reason I don't understand. They have been around for centuries and aren't any weirder than drinking milk from a cows udders or syrup mixed with fizzy water (most soft drinks) or fermented grape juice.

Yes agreed although just to be clear this isnt a milk bashing thread of any type. We are pro all milks here, highly inclusive on this thread, I wont hear a word against cows udders or smashed soya beans or anything like that.

Fibre also, not a mineral or vitamin but in the UK we dont get enough. 30mg a day I think we're meant to have or something like that

My SIL became completely obsessive about not eating anything dairy . She already had the beginnings of osteoporosis so no calcium was a disaster . Her bones are like chalk now and break so easily ( broke her arm in 2 places tripping into the living room wall, broke her hip slipping on ice, broke her ankle stepping off the pavement). Everything takes months and months to even begin to mend .

Cod and haddock are very high in iodine.

I recently found out that cows milk is only high in iodine because of the iodine they add to the cows feed, and the iodine they use to clean milking equipment with! I wonder where we used to get iodine from before it was used in milk production.

I think egg yolks are a good source @howaboutchocolate. Apparently they used to add it to flour (probably because deficiency became such a concern a century or so ago - goitre and so on) but stopped doing that. But I think seaweed is the best source particularly wakame, the dried stuff. You can put it in miso as a sort of cup soup.