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Re:Which milk alternative should we be drinking? by Supermancho on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @05:56PM (#22313704)
> Almond milk is great for you, but it doesn't taste as good as real almonds, so why drink it?

Because there are some foods that only make sense with a milk substance added (eg cereal). Almond milk, alone, isn't very ... tasty. Usually there are variants (sweetened, vanilla, chocolate) because it's not great. Almonds are also terrible for the environment, vis a vis water conservation, given what it takes to grow them.

I currently prefer Flaxseed milk.

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Re:Which milk alternative should we be drinking? by rezgi on Thursday February 13, 2020 @06:02AM (#22316778)
> Almonds are also terrible for the environment, vis a vis water conservation, given what it takes to grow them.

From the article:

> Even almond milk, a notorious water-hogger, takes less water to produce than dairy – needing on average 371 litres of water per litre of milk produced, compared to dairy milk’s 628 litres. Rice milk follows shortly behind, needing 270 litres of water per litre of milk. Soy and oat, on the other hand, need just 28 and 48 respectively.

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