Trim your hipster beard and fill your bowl with obscure 1990s children's breakfast cereals from a weird East London cafe: this week I'm exploring the nutty world of dairy alternatives
Lots of insight in this and thoroughly researched. I’m sure if you had more time you would have included some commentary on just how processed many of the alt-milks are. People
enjoy the taste of E.g. oat milk, and think it is healthy. However, when you look into what happens to the oats during production (effectively turned into sugar, but not as an additive so doesn’t have to be labelled as such), as well as the plant oils that are used (highly chemically treated) you begin to realise the nice taste is achieved through slightly nefarious means. In this way the some of the alt milks bear the hallmarks of many previous “healthy” alternatives of the past 50 years (E.g. margarine)
thanks for the comment, Oli - the nutrition and processing side of things is definitely a whole other area to explore. Looking at the ingredients on the packaging for some of these products does make you wonder how 'sustainable' they really are! In your view, are there any brands which can give peace of mind with regards to completely natural ingredients?
Lots of insight in this and thoroughly researched. I’m sure if you had more time you would have included some commentary on just how processed many of the alt-milks are. People
enjoy the taste of E.g. oat milk, and think it is healthy. However, when you look into what happens to the oats during production (effectively turned into sugar, but not as an additive so doesn’t have to be labelled as such), as well as the plant oils that are used (highly chemically treated) you begin to realise the nice taste is achieved through slightly nefarious means. In this way the some of the alt milks bear the hallmarks of many previous “healthy” alternatives of the past 50 years (E.g. margarine)
thanks for the comment, Oli - the nutrition and processing side of things is definitely a whole other area to explore. Looking at the ingredients on the packaging for some of these products does make you wonder how 'sustainable' they really are! In your view, are there any brands which can give peace of mind with regards to completely natural ingredients?
Always backed you with the orange juice and cornflakes. Made rubbish porridge though
I will have to try that…
Fascinating stuff as always Slothy, keep up the good work!
Thank you for reading Oli! 🙏🏼