Oat milk.
01-27-2021, 06:02 AM
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Originally Posted by ptquilts
How would you distinguish between coconut milk and coconut water? They're both beverages.
Coconut water is the natural liquid you get when you open a coconut.
I would suspect coconut water, purchased without the coconut, is processed to some extent, in order for it to keep. Perhaps with some additives? Perhaps the nutrient contents change? I don't have the answers, just questions I would ask.
Coconut beverage is a processed product, like almond, soy, oat, rice, etc. drinks are.
They all make me "cringe" with the word milk added to them. Just so not true.
01-27-2021, 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by oksewglad
...........My particular grief is why is milk sold by fat percentage and not by its fat free designation; ie whole milk is 96.5% fat free, 2% is 98% fat free. And look there's only a 1.5% fat difference in the two! My little soap box......
Especially when you consider all the other foods we eat, that are much much higher in % fat content. So many avoid whole milk, yet it's pretty darned low in fat, when compared to so many other foods we eat that are so fat filled!
Originally Posted by oksewglad
............In regards to the Vitamin D issue. Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin (as is Vitamin A); in other words only carried in fat. If you take the fat out, you also take out the Vitamin D!
01-27-2021, 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by oksewglad
Yes, they are added to milk, but not a mandatory addition.
01-27-2021, 01:46 PM
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Since the pandemic hit, we have been buying many things direct from local farmers and that includes milk. One dairy has a store onsite, open during daylight hours. It is on the honor system. A couple of coolers stocked with milk: white, chocolate and strawberry as well as several different varieties of dairy made cheeses. The milk is pasturized (law in Ohio) but not homogenized. My DH loves to pour the chocolate milk straight into the ice cream maker and add various goodies. You can see the cows in the milking parlor from inside the store. There is another dairy whose milk is even richer (think icebergs of cream) but they are too far to get to regularly. Luckily the milk is sold at the little store run by the folks we buy our grass fed meat from. And don't get me started on the butter. All this yumminess and no weight gain is possible with portion control.
01-28-2021, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by rjwilder
Oat milk is great, I pretty much eat a plant based diet. It's easy to make from steel cut oats. It can be used as a coffee creamer, in pancakes, mashed potatoes and anything else you put milk in. I am not a big milk drinker, never was so I don't drink a big glass of it with my breakfast.
01-28-2021, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Onebyone
The best tasting non milk to me is Flax milk. It's hard to find in my area because the stores couldn't sell enough of it. The pedrictionas my kids over the years told me don't give my kids soy products so I never bought any to try.
01-28-2021, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by janiebakes
Since the pandemic hit, we have been buying many things direct from local farmers and that includes milk. One dairy has a store onsite, open during daylight hours. It is on the honor system. A couple of coolers stocked with milk: white, chocolate and strawberry as well as several different varieties of dairy made cheeses. The milk is pasturized (law in Ohio) but not homogenized. My DH loves to pour the chocolate milk straight into the ice cream maker and add various goodies. You can see the cows in the milking parlor from inside the store. There is another dairy whose milk is even richer (think icebergs of cream) but they are too far to get to regularly. Luckily the milk is sold at the little store run by the folks we buy our grass fed meat from. And don't get me started on the butter. All this yumminess and no weight gain is possible with portion control.
