A baby was losing weight and vomiting. At the hospital, doctors discovered he was starving from an almond milk diet:
The mother was trying to raise the baby vegan.🤬
(www.insider.com)
🧠These people are stupid!
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The article you posted actually talks about how it is healthy for you
Yes, unfortunately. But it strangely provided a calculation for the amount of almonds per cup (or lack thereof), which is what I was looking for. If you make your own almond milk, you could call it "healthy" because it would contain many, many more almonds. But there is absolutely nothing healthy about the almond milk you might purchase at your grocery store.
Almonds do contain some lysine, an essential amino acid, although there are other nuts which are better sources.
Well yeah, homemade is certainly going to be better, but I don't see how store bought is "unhealthy by any stretch of the imagination." Just because there aren't as many almonds?
If you look at the post I made that you commented on, I stated it's the gums and emulsifiers. Also, there is only 1/2 an almond per cup.
What I think they're trying to clarify is that the ratio of chemicals (unhealthy) to almonds (relatively healthy) is disproportionately in favor of the former, which is why commercial almond milk is often, though not always nor all brands, unhealthy.
But for the record, a lot of normal commercial milk is bad for you too. A ton of sugars, and removing some of the good stuff (fats) has become more commonplace.
Spinach has zero almonds per cup. It's still healthy, so stop using that as a baseline.
Emulsifiers are in all kinds of things. Some are natural, some are synthetic. An emulsifier covers a wide net of different ingredients. Which ones are in almond milk? Do you know? Or do you just read "emulsifiers" and think it's bad?
What gum? How much?