plant based milk is always on offer somewhere at £1.50-1.70. Plus the long life ones are basically same tasting as the cold ones. I switched as I prefer taste of oat (especially chocolate oat) in my coffee, it has a long fridge & shelf life.
Really enjoyed the video after RU-vid recommended a couple of your Shorts! There's even more more combinations over here in Canada. Some milk replacements have multiple "milks" in them, and there're separate product for coffee/tee. Unfortunately, depending on coffee's acidity and temperature, they still randomly separate sometimes. I hope food chemists will eventually come up with a perfect replacement everybody's gonna be happy with and we'll be able to reduce beef and milk consumption.
A good video, though something I think people often forget with cows milk is that the land used is often grass, which locks up massive amounts of carbon that offset the greenhouse gases produced by the cows.
Whilst that is true, the excessive land, water, food usage and methane production still makes it far worse than plant milks, because cows on grass are likely to live longer which is actually worse for the environment
@@Gronkiyit’s a closed cycle time isnt a factor once they are adults it doesn’t matter how long they live and here in the uk most of our dairy farms are on uneven hilly terrain that can’t be used for economical farming so the land isn’t being taken away from plant production
Coming into this with my own biases you've pretty much agreed with my take on this: plant milks have their place for certain uses and different varieties taste better in different scenarios, but nutritionally they are very different to milk. Many people don't get enough nutrition in their diet, so if someone eats unhealthily, swapping cow milk for plant milk would generally be a bad idea. With that said, if someone does eat a nutritious diet, there is no reason you need cow milk, and plant milk alternatives have a number of benefits.
The reason why that demographic has a high incidence of food intolerances is because they have very little real struggle or threats in their lives. And we will look for threats in order to identify what we need to do stay safe, if you’ve only ever known safety then processed food and gluten become your equivalent of “should I heat my living room for 30 minutes or use the oven to cook this ready meal?” That’s something my friend who is a dietitian said and it made a lot of sense to me.
I’m lactose intolerant and it’s getting worse as I get older. So milk alternatives are sadly a thing. So many taste horrible, it’s trial and error until you find one that suits you. I find soya milk to be my go to, especially on cereal, nothing really works well in a cup of tea. I never understood the popularity of oat milk or the nut milks in recent years, taste awful to me. But each to their own.
For us, it’s almost exclusively soy, maybe soy with a touch of vanilla. The only other thing is Oat milk, but that’s for things you want more of a cream replacement for, like a tea. I don’t love the glucose spike from oat milk personally so I’m pretty much exclusively soy, if I drink milk at all.
If I had to switch it would have to be oat, as apparently I am in the small fraction of the population that gets Migraines triggered by Soy.So far only happens with soy milk, Soy Sauce or Soy as an additive in things that seems to not affect me at least not severe enough to notice.
Really well put together video. This topic can sometimes be quite charged so I was pleased that you did a good job of being unbiased. Of course we can all find products that weren't included (e.g. sweetened vs unsweetened, & Tesco's own brand soya milk is £1.25 for 1L which brings it in line with the cheaper items on your list) but you can't include everything, and someone will always be disappointed. In general this seemed fair given the scope of the test.
loved this video and i guessed the 2 winners but i noticed you got the soya no sugars(unsweetened) milk which is lovely compared to the normal soya milk BUT you got the normal almond and hazlenut drinks instead of the unsweetened equivalents which are way nicer. not sure if that may have influenced the taste part of the tests, but in the end the winning 2 are the ones i tend to consume
I'm in Canada so I had to look up Jersey milk. It's 5% which is what we call here a light 'coffee cream'. (regular 'coffee cream' is 10%, though a lot of people use 18% 'table cream' for coffee). Our highest fat for milk is 3.25% 'homo' (homogenised). Milk also comes in 'skim' (0%), 1% and 2% (part skim). So interesting to see how things are different between countries. Interesting fact, we have a chocolate bar here called Jersey Milk. It's made by a Canadian company called Neilson dairy.
Great vid! forgot potato milk 😉 although I think I was the only one that likes that and I haven’t seen it in the UK for a while haha As a vegetarian leaning vegan I try to avoid cow milk but I used to treat myself to Jersey milk with the cream on top it’s super tasty, the plant based equivalent is definitely Oato from the milkman
Gold Top jersey milk is nectar of the gods, can't recommend it enough, the vast majority of water usage for cows is from rain and cows excrete it back onto the environment.
Personally, I have only ever tried Semi-skimmed, Whole milk and Soya (Sweetened) milk drink and the FRESH Semi-Skimmed always wins imo. I don't live near a farm or creamery, but if I did, Cows milk would always beat the environmental test as nothing beats a grass-fed cow which is locally sourced and delivered freshly via an electric (or diesel) milk float. As for the pricing, in certain situations, Soya can be the cheapest (out of plant-based milk drinks), I have found, with Farmfoods selling ~1L
very well done! I think taste is very subjective for example I can't stand the taste of soy milk but I love oat milk although after watching your video I think I might have to give soy milk another try. Maybe from the brand you tasted
So they are only one choice when it comes to milk. That’s a cow. Natural. Wholesome and delicious. Anything else is not milk it’s a processed drink. God put cattle on this planet for meat. Milk. Butter and leather. If that’s wrong I don’t want to be right.
Can we please stop talking about the carbon footprint on things that are comparatively irrelevant. THE problem is fossil fuels and we have issues getting people on board with that. If you are resilient to the fact that your monster truck is a problem, adding cows milk to the issue is just going to take us further from the goal. Fix fossil fuel first and if we need fine tuning after we can talk about it then.
