The fact that people are waving this hard for oatmilk, shows me that there must be a genetical component of people, who can't taste certain elements of oatmilk. For me it it tastes watery, like even below 1,5% fat and it smells unpleasant, with a subtile kind of moldy/rotten in it. I drink about a liter of milk every day and I would not want that even in my coffee, let alone pure or in my cornflakes.

This shouldn't mean people shouldn't try or even like oatmilk, but it's no replacement for me, not even close.

[–] AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Drinking a litre of milk every day can't be healthy. It causes osteoporosis and can raise your cholesterol levels.

https://iphysio.io/osteoporosis/

Do as you want but for everyone reading this thread, I thought it was a good resource to add. And also keep in mind, the animal agriculture lobby is huge and they publish biased counter studies with questionable methods.

[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The osteoporosis thing has mostly be debunked. It's old women who can be effected by it, most everyone else isn't. Of course living vegan can be healthier if you get your blood levels checked regularly and take supplements, but most of the food tastes worse too. It depends on what's more important to you personally. The linked article's study, to me, is compromised, they even admit it themselves by acknowledging it's more a general animal protein thing.

[–] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I think a lot of people who switch to non-dairy milk never really liked to drink milk in the first place. It was easy for them to switch. I had to cut dairy when I had a baby with a milk allergy and it was so hard. None of the milk alternatives taste anything like cow milk. I hated all of them. Vegan cheese is pretty terrible, too. Even the most expensive fancy cashew ones taste significantly worse than the cheapest cow milk cheese. I did like Daiya's smoked gouda and nutritional yeast is pretty good, but other than that I was so glad to have cow milk back in my diet after a year of being dairy-free. I like meat alternatives but dairy alternatives are just bad. I hope science figures it out.

That baby with the dairy allergy outgrew the allergy but still prefers oat milk.

[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 1 points 7 months ago

For the record I grew up drinking 2-3 glasses of whole milk a day. Your conclusion may be logical, but I don’t think that means it represents the populace by any means just because it makes sense.

[–] Anamana@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

I like meat alternatives but dairy alternatives are just bad.

This so much.

[–] Uriel_Copy@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I find it really depends on the brand. I have no idea what the differences really are (or even how it's made in the first place) but in my experience around half are as you describe and half are delicious

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

Smell and taste seems to very a lot between people. I'm not even surprised.

I love oat milk, personally.

[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That’s quite a logic leap there if I’m being honest.

I grey up drinking whole milk and having 2-3 glasses a day, I love milk.

I buy the purple Silk brand that has the extra protein in it (red ribbon printed on the carton) and I’m telling you it’s gas in cereal. By itself, it’s still not whole milk - don’t get me wrong, it’s just 30x less watery than almond milk was but maybe the protein one is thicker or something idk.

[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I'm hoping they sell this good stuff here too at some point. I haven't stopped trying to find an alternative, I too would like to reduce animal suffering.