Which type of plant-based milk is best?
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Overall the taste and creaminess feel very authentically milky, would recommend.
I understand it’s also one of the most environmentally friendly alternatives across all categories, so that’s a big bonus too. And I bet it’s pretty easy to make yourself if you’re keen.
That’s not my experience. It curdles with strong espresso and the barista versions are fatty and/or mixed with soya milk.
Normal oat milk curdles otherwise.
What makes you so sure??
https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/100-percent-oat-produc...
https://detoxproject.org/certification/glyphosate-residue-fr...
Their process seems pretty thorough, the companies have to go through periodic random testing.
It's been great to learn that cow milk can be substituted so easily, still get it sometimes for the taste though.
For cooking in most things the taste is generally better (unless you're trying to make a buttery croissant) and there's no impact on quality.
I do find it hard to substitute out eggs though.
On the other side, plant based milk has also quite few problems. One is pesticide, and fertilizer that are used for growing the plants. The other thing is what they need to add to keep the "milk" smooth without demixing to water-oil-phases. I like oat milk. I love lactofree cow milk. I like horse, goat and soy milk - but try to consume not to much of any type.
https://www.verywellfamily.com/hormones-in-breast-milk-p2-39...
Here's an explanation of hormone/active content in our human mammals milk. I assume (others say "We know") with other mammals it is the same.
There is also evidence that milk of cows given to human babies let them develop eczema of skin. That's why they get mom's milk or processed artificial powder milk with supplements a human newborn needs.
Also, young mothers should avoid alcohol while still breastfeeding. Medicine taken also must not be passed to baby with milk. Quite a lot of medicine have a warning.
Also a lot of food ingredients can be passed with milk to newborns, like salt, pepper & spices, garlic, onions, cardamom, etc - which induce flatulence and pain or having even bigger effects, like lavender scent does by being oestrogenious and letting boys grow boobies or the girls developing "elephantiasis of their secondary sexual character parts" (= I can't write that three descriptive words in here) and later as a result a high risk of breast cancer (to much of oestrogen hormone as main cause).
So, we eat parts of dead bodys and drink the milk which is not intended for our branch of evolution :)
The best one is what you can make at home. If you skip the vegetable oil and emulsifiers, you can make these quite quickly. You either blend it (the nut or seed) with water or soak and then blend with water (or additionally cook after blending). You could get more wholesome nutrition too.
Look up the recipes to make these at home. They’re quite simple (or at least not as complex as cooking some other foods). Try making with cashews or coconut or almonds or flax seeds or soybeans or peanuts or rice or hemp or sesame or a blend of these.
It used to be "secretion from the mammary glands of certain farm animals" but you can rephrase it to "liquid that is taken from a particular protein source — a coconut, a soy[bean], a cow, a goat..."
https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/european-court-rul...
Here's in EU coconut milk: https://hjem.foetex.dk/produkt/kokosmaelk-max-18-fedt-oeko/6...
And another EU retailer selling goat milk: https://naturkost-odense.dk/product_info.php?products_id=202
These new products are designed to replace actual milk for use in consumption. So there does entail danger of confusion, hence, the restriction on calling them milk.
This is milk, but not in Europe
> This is milk, but not in Europe
- milc (Anglian)
- Proto-Germanic meluk
- Old Norse mjolk
- Old Frisian melok
- Old Saxon miluk
- Dutch melk
- Old High German miluh
- German Milch
- Gothic miluks
- Czech mléko, Serbian млеко, Russian молоко, ..
The natural ecosystem of the land that is now crop was obliterated before the first seed was sewn, and most likely the soil’s nutrients are depleted more and more each year, due to pesticides and crude plowing techniques.
If a moral high ground is what you’re looking for, drink water.
Every plot of land used to grow crop represents countless animals that used to live there, and were wiped out by the farmer. Farmers constantly battle against pests, which too are animals, just trying to live. Vultures are often seen following combine harvesters, to prey on the corpses of field mice and other small mammals that get caught in the blades. Zero harm is a myth.
It sounds to me you want to make everything relative so that the conclusion is “everything involves some harm, so I might just eat me some steaks and drink some cow milk, it won’t matter”. But it matters greatly. So let’s not do that.
You're mistaken about my motivations - I believe that eating ethically sourced, grass fed, grass finished, certified organic meat is better for the environment than a plant based diet. Watch the video I linked if you'd like to understand how someone could possibly make that argument.
There is no perfect way to produce consumable resources because it takes other resources to make them, whether it’s animals, land, water, fuel or whatnot.
Someone will always find something to be unhappy or offended with even if we grow oat milk in space in a vacuum and teleport it back to earth.
Reducing horrendous practices of abusing animals to have a milky cup of coffee is great step forward and people have the right to feel they’re making a positive impact without judgements that’s it not good enough or that poor soil’s nutrients are taken away instead now.
You can’t change the world being binary about these things, it’s a step forward in the right direction.
We’ll change world being agile and iterative, not by turning it into a waterfall project of “everything now is magically 100% environmentally friendly and everyone’s happy”.
If you think about it, there actually is a perfect way to produce consumable resources, and it existed long before humans came along. Ruminant animals graze, migrate and their dropping rejuvenate soil in perfect balance with nature.
I'm not making the case that it's practical or even possible to feed 8 billion people in this way, but the way that we're depleting the Earth's nutrients with industrial farming is not practical in the long term either.
It's particularly creamy without having any oil additives, not great for frothing in coffee though.
I'm not a medical professional though the opinion that I share is the opinion of a medical professional that I trust. There's a lot of money to be made in soy products, though, so like fossil fuels be prepared to find zealots on both sides of the argument who have no problem lying or even just being "useful idiots". I certainly hope that I'm not being one.
You can see the effects of the food industry on the debate, as almost all medical journals that mention "pseudo estrogen" mention it in the context of soy, but the Wikipedia page "Xenoestrogen" (which apparently is a scientific-sounding stand-in for the medical term "pseudo estrogen") doesn't even contain the word soy.
No... let's talk about which veggie milk is the best / worst for the environment.
Don't these writers maybe consider that what they are doing is creating NOISE??
Maybe think about your work moments a little more before writing them. Don't you consider that what you're doing is creating NOISE?
Who buys them?