Centuries of milk marketing warped the way we think about dairy and nutrition

Re:Centuries of milk marketing warped the way we think about... by racional on Friday May 31, 2024 @07:16PM (#40541239)

Plant 'milks' are just going through a lot of effort to take generally decent foodstuff (oats, nuts, etc.) and watering them down, massively reducing the nutritional density and content. The macro and micro content of things like oat milk, cashew milk, and so on are next to water because that's basically what they are.

People don't reach for plant milk (or butter) for the nutritive content; but rather for the texture and taste, which make other foods (smoothies, porridge), not to mention coffee / tea (for some), more palatable -- or in the case of baked goods (or pudding, ice cream, etc) they essentially are the texture of these foods. Thus expanding their range of what they can eat (and enjoy).

And to do so in a way not involving animal milk.

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Re:Centuries of milk marketing warped the way we think about... by johnnyjeans on Friday May 31, 2024 @09:52PM (#40542219)

And yet the rhetoric is not about the usage of dairy in its role as a garnish, it's about presenting plant milks as a genuine dietary alternative to mammalian milk. I don't find that it's the people who buy plant milk for their coffee to be the same people implying that milk's popularity was invented out of thin air by mad doctors of the post-renaissance.

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