"Eat less from a box and more from earth."
Plant "milks" are all the rage - oat milk seems to have taken over coffee shops, and there are a plethora of other plant milks to choose from at the store: soy, rice, almond, cashew, macadamia, sesame, pistachio, et al. There can be a halo effect for plant milks since they are vegan, but are they really healthier than good old dairy milks? Let's investigate.
Small aside: why are they called plant milks anyway? When I liquify a plant of any type - apple, carrot, beets - to drink, I call it a juice. Isn't milk from a breast? Do they call it milk because you are only supposed to use these plant milks as a dairy milk substitute? In Taiwan there is a history of drinking soy milk but not dairy milk, so it's not called a milk or used as a substitute but as a drink of its own. Anyhow, I digress.
Like Impossible Burgers or other plant-based meats, commercial plant milks are much more processed than the original dairy milk. Let's look at some ingredients lists:
