We use pea milk with our kids because they're lactose intolerant. Pediatrician recommended as long as they're getting more protein and fat elsewhere in their diet (which they do). It doesn't hurt that peas don't care how they're raised and treated to produce milk.

Dairy milk is not nutritionally necessary in any age cohort. If you enjoy it, that's fine of course, but it isn't required if you don't.

Peas probably do care about these things. We just have not understood the systems yet. I think the research into Plant intelligence and sensitivity is relatively new.

How did you determine that they are lactose intolerant? Just trial and error, or is there a specific way to confirm this?

I'm truly happy that you are not lactose intolerant. I know you are not intolerant because if you were, that's not a question you'd need to ask. I don't want to be crass, let's just say the symptoms are NOT ambiguous to you or people around you:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lactose-intol...

There is a test. See here: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lactose-intol...

It's pretty easy to tell if you're more than just slightly lactose intolerant. The symptoms are pretty obvious and go away after a day or two of avoiding dairy.

Trial and error.

I just think you're damaging your kids by not giving them milk, which is the most nutritious thing you can feed a kid. Also, your kids may be lactose intolerant due to other stuff in their diet, like gluten or other toxins in plant-based foods that lead to a leaky gut.

Ah of course, your robust remote medical diagnosis of "leaky gut" seems much more suitable than an actual assessment by an actual physician.

It's fine to research and make decisions about your diet which are in line with your own understanding, philosophy, and dietary requirements. Please don't pretend that your views on this are particularly useful for others.

Nobody is damaging their kids by not giving milk unless they're not giving mother's milk (or human milk). There are alternatives that may be more suitable and better than the milk of a cow or a buffalo (or some other mammal).

there is no evidence that gluten is bad for you if you're not gluten-sensitive.

Yet gluten sensitivity is on the rise

Things can seem to be on the rise when awareness and detection improve. For example: the number of known exoplanets grows by the day, but they existed before we knew about them.

>awareness and detection improve.

Increase might be a better word than improve. Number of "diagnosed" cases might have gone up, but I'd argue accuracy of diagnosis has gotten much much worse.

There was a recent study showing only about 1 in 10 people who claimed to be allergic to antibiotics actually had any allergic or other negative response to them.

Link to a paper on the antibiotics allergy topic:

https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/learning/learning-art...?

Realistically, it is a lot more likely that the kids are lactose intolerant (over half of humanity) than that they have celiac disease (under 1% of humanity).

Also, there's a fairly foolproof test for lactose intolerance.

Over half of humanity become lactose intolerant as adults.

Almost no infants are lactose intolerant, for obvious evolutionary reasons (mother's milk is full of lactose).

If milk is so good, keep them on Mother's milk.

Bitty! Lol :-)

(Ref: 'Little Britain') https://youtu.be/FmD2Y6WxpIw?t=61

I drink unflavored, unsweetened soy milk. Just two ingredients, soy beans and water. It tastes great when made properly, and is very nutritious, high protein and good fats, calcium etc

what brand/product is this, or is it homemade?

Edensoy!