Milk Alternatives

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Which is the cream of the crop for your health and the planet?

The supermarket shelves are fairly bulging with plant-based options for people who either prefer not to drink cow's milk or can't for health reasons like an allergy. Some have been around for a while - like soy, almond and the current best-seller in the UK, oat - but there are newer additions to consider like hazelnut, hemp and a drink made from dried peas.

Listener Sian wants to know if these milk alternatives are better for her health and the environment than cow's milk. Do they give you the same nutritional benefits? And what's the carbon footprint of each, and how do they compare to the production of cow's milk?

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Presenter: Greg Foot Producer: Simon Hoban

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0:44.7	promising to make you happier, healthier or greener.
0:48.3	This week's suggestion comes in from Sean Harrison in Milton Keynes.
0:53.5	Hello, sliced bread.
0:55.3	When I eat my porridge in the morning, I wonder about the milk I am using.
1:00.2	I used to use dairy milk, but I've now tried sawyer, hazelnut, almond, coconut and oat drinks.
1:08.5	And I'm wondering if they are better for me and better for the environment than
1:13.1	dairy milk. What do you think? I think these milk alternatives are a great wonder products
1:18.1	to investigate charm and clearly lots of you do too because I have had a load of emails in about
1:23.2	well I'm going to try not to say oat milk or almond milk, because technically, if you go for the
1:29.7	definition that milk has to be produced by an animal, they're not milk. In fact, in the UK, it's
1:36.1	illegal to use the term milk on packaging, which is why you'll often read something like oat or
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