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!
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.
Oat milk is ok to use in moderation, wouldn’t ever use as a substitute to dairy for many reasons - oats are one of the main glyphosate affected crops, it’s not nutrient dense and has low protein and high sugar not to mention oat milk is also WAYYYY higher in carbohydrates than other dairy milk alternatives. Bc it is sourced from a grain, the carb content is around 15 grams of carbohydrates per serving compared to 1 gram per serving of almond milk. I buy unpasteurized milk directly from the farm and haven’t had any digestive problems - switched from using almond/coconut milk blend for years when my son was born.
Okay. I drink oat milk pretty much exclusively instead of diary milk