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!
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?
The reason I know there is question about almond milk is that I was drinking it for a time as a substitute for cow's milk, and it began making me sick. I learned quite a bit about almond milk, how it is made, and what ingredients are added to it. Is it necessary for me to write a whole essay in a post on a message board?
Carrageenan is one such gum that is often added, depending upon brand, and here is a short article listing its possible side effects: https://www.medicinenet.com/what_is_wrong_with_carrageenan/article.htm All the gums are chemically similar, and can potentially cause some of the same symptoms in the digestive tract. Guar, xanthan, carob, gellan, etc.
Because of my own personal experience, I know that whatever quantity of the stuff was added into the Almond Breeze brand I drank (ingredients here: https://www.bluediamond.com/brand/almond-breeze/almondmilk/original ), it was too much. I have read more than one article over the past months of infants being fed almond milk, and becoming nutritionally-deficient and underweight. If you notice in the ingredient information I linked, Almond Breeze adds some vitamins into the product to try to make up for the lack of nutrition.
If you are a fan of almond milk, and have no problems drinking it, then go ahead. But please don't give it to an infant.
Not really necessary to write a whole essay, no. You just keep saying that it's unhealthy but aren't saying specifically why, other than that it doesn't have as many almonds as homemade, when the links you share say it's healthy.
Thanks for sharing the ingredients to avoid! However there are brands that don't use this compound. Plus, I think that's mostly linked with IBS. Personally I drink oat milk and the brand I've got doesn't use Carrageenan, but it doesn't seem like it affects everyone the same.
For babies, they absolutely shouldn't be given dairy free milks, so we're in agreement there. I'm not arguing that. I'm just saying that it's not an unhealthy choice for adults unless you have a specific reaction to the compounds that may be used.
And yes, I caught that you changed celery to spinach...
I thought spinach was a better example