THE FREE-FROM-DAIRY MILK BAR
If
you check out the ingredient list on a carton of cow’s milk, there’s
one ingredient: milk (or low-fat milk). That’s because it’s a whole food
that’s minimally processed (pasteurised and possibly homogenised).
Plant “milks” on the other hand tend to have a longish list of
ingredients because they are processed foods from factories not farms.
We took a look at four calcium-enriched plant milks (soy, rice, almond
and coconut) for product review this month to help you choose one that’s
right for you. The nutrition data comes from the manufacturers’
websites, which we found very comprehensive and much easier to read than
the small print on the nutrition label on the containers.
SO GOOD SOY
Ingredients: Filtered water, soy
protein (3.5%), corn maltodextrin, vegetable oils (sunflower, canola),
cane sugar, minerals (calcium, phosphorus, magnesium), acidity
regulators (332, 450), antioxidant (ascorbic acid), vitamins (A, B12,
D2, B2, B1), natural flavour.
VITASOY RICE MILK
Ingredients: Filtered water, whole brown rice (min. 13%), sunflower oil, mineral (calcium phosphate), sea salt.
SO GOOD ALMOND MILK
Ingredients: Filtered
water, almonds (2.5%), mineral (calcium), emulsifier (sunflower
lecithin), natural flavour, salt, mineral salt (sodium bicarbonate),
vegetable gum (gellan), antioxidant (ascorbic acid), vitamins (B12, B2,
B1).
SO GOOD COCONUT MILK
Ingredients: Filtered
water, coconut cream (9%), chicory inulin, mineral salt (tricalcium
phosphate), flavour, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), salt, vegetable
gum (gellan).
