Cool article, with all kinds of interesting background.
The one I bought, above, was $2.50 CAN which is about $2 US.
Emma JC
I recently picked up a container of shelf-stable, non-dairy Trader Joe's Oat Milk. The ingredients are water and hydrolyzed oats. Can someone explain what the hydrolyzing process entails and whether it is vegan and wholesome? Thanks.
I get oat milk for my son to make his smoothies with. It tends to have more calories than all the others. Myself, I like soy milk in my oatmeal (really the only time I use any plant milk of any kind). Not as good for the environment, I guess, but I don't really want oats on oats, if that makes any sense. :/
I will rebel and not do what Quaker tells me (then again, my oats are Quaker, so...).Now The directions for quaker oats says to use quaker oat beverage to make your morning oats
I get oat milk for my son to make his smoothies with. It tends to have more calories than all the others. Myself, I like soy milk in my oatmeal (really the only time I use any plant milk of any kind). Not as good for the environment, I guess, but I don't really want oats on oats, if that makes any sense. :/
I was just responding to the paragraph in the article that @Lou posted:I don't think that soybean cultivation is worse for the environment than oat cultivation. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, soybeans and oats have approximately the same water requirements: http://www.fao.org/3/s2022e/s2022e02.htm#2.2.1 influence of crop type on the daily crop water needs
Soybean cultivation is only "bad" in the sense that 98% of soybean meal is used for animal feed (per the Wisconsin Soybean Association: http://www.wisoybean.org/news/soybean_facts.php ), and feeding soybeans to livestock animals is inefficient - a waste of food resources.
According to the University of Illinois, it takes about 6 lbs. of feed to produce 1 lb. of beef, 3.5 lbs. of feed to produce 1 lb. of pork, and 2 lbs. of feed to produce 1 lb. of poultry: https://www.ncba.org/CMDocs/BeefUSA/Resources/cc2012-Beef-Feed-Efficiency--Dan-Shike.pdf . From a nutrition standpoint (only), this might be OK, if the poultry contained 2-times the protein of the soybeans, but it doesn't! 100 grams of as-harvested soybeans contains 36 grams of protein: https://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/legumes-and-legume-products/4375/2, but 100 grams of as-harvested (with skin) chicken contains only 30 grams of protein: https://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/poultry-products/699/2 . It's a losing proposition.
I tried Silk oat chocolate milk recently and i'm not too happy bout it. I can really taste how bitter the cocoa powder is.Need to try another brand.
Yes, yes.Prior to my posting, I had read several such sites describing the process. But I am not knowledgeable enough to assess what I asked. Any process could have steps where for example an animal-based enzyme was used. Or maybe there is residue in the product from something that was used, etc. So that's why I am asking about Trader Joe's oat milk that contains water and hydrolyzed oats. Is it vegan and is it wholesome?