It tastes better and if your landlord gives you a cruddy fridge that barely chills anything, then at least oat milk doesn’t go foul as fast as dairy.
There’s no reason for this not to be the case everywhere, especially since manufacturing these HAS to be cheaper than ranching.
Is there a word (that’s not milk) for vegetable based milk alternatives?
That’s been the term of choice in English for the past 800+ years
In English, the word “milk” has been used to refer to “milk-like plant juices” since 1200 CE.[11]
Plant milks go back much further than most people realize
Almond milk spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages and was popular in parts of the Middle East. Recipes for almond milk in the Middle East date back to around the 13th century as it was mentioned in Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi’s cookbook Kitāb al-Ṭabīḫ (كتاب الطبيخ; The Book of Dishes), written in 1226. It was especially popular during Lent.[12][13][14][15] Soy was a plant milk used in China during the 14th century.[3][16] Soy milk use in China is first recorded in 1365.[17] In medieval England, almond milk was used in dishes such as ris alkere (a type of rice pudding)[18] and appears in the recipe collection The Forme of Cury.[19] Coconut milk (and coconut cream) are traditional ingredients in many cuisines such as in South and Southeast Asia, and are often used in curries.[20]
Some of them are sold as “<plant name> drink”, though these seem to contain quite a bit more sugar than milk alternatives branded as “<plant> milk”.
Those are primarily just using the same the packing as they due to places that prohibit using the term “milk”. The dairy industry has lobbied quite hard for those bans across the world at all levels of government. Under the belief that “oat drink” or the like sounds less appealing that “oat milk”
They have a lot of money but I doubt they’ll be able to change this. It’d have to happen in different countries and imagine how idiotic this would look. Trying to ban people from using certain words, a global crusade against oat milk. Just crazy.
The goal isn’t necessarily to change how people speak (though they would if they could), but more to make the product name on the stores shelves look less appealing to reduce sales
I don’t think it’d work since so many have already discovered the miracle of oat milk but I guess large companies will try anything just because they can.
It probably won’t stop most people, but they’ll try to do anything they can to slow things down even if it’s on the margins
Among those who do not use plant-based alternatives, 54% said they dislike the taste, while 44% pointed to the price.
Honestly never tasted any plant based alternative except coconut milk because of the price. Can’t say I drink milk through, because of the price too. I do use it in cooking. Where I live soy and oat milk is four or five times more expensive than the cheapest cow milk, last time I checked at least.
That difference seems a lot higher than most of the world. Were you looking at price per unit volume or price per whatever the container was? I’d be really surprised if there’s a difference that high
There is also the option of making plant-milks yourself. Price can be a lot cheaper that way by orders of magnitude. (Though may take some experimentation to get good tasting recipes, so don’t necessarily judge off of the first taste)
Things are more expensive where I live, especially dairy as we don’t have local milk. I meant for 1litre the price
