Lactose in enough quantities gets my tummy rumbling in a bad way so I’m trying out alternatives.
Oat milk in hipster coffee drinks is pretty good.
Soy milk as a protein and calcium beverage is fine. Tastes OK.
There is lactose-free milk too but that is still suspect. Either it’s not all the way lactose free or too much of any kind of dairy quakes my intestines.
I’ve always heard soy milk isn’t really that good for you; something about estrogen hormones. But I’ve always just used Almond milk back when I was still married. It’s pretty good too.
That one is a load of right-wing propaganda believe it or not.
Soy contains a plant estrogen that doesn’t really affect humans at all, and the general benefits definitely outweigh any negative effects that might be happening
Source: Harvard school of public health
Oat milk is way tastier though
I appreciate the insights. I never drank soy anyway, so it never concerned me.
Almond milk has almost no protein, as odd as that is since almonds have a lot of protein themselves. Somewhere in the process it’s lost. I don’t like milk substitutes that reduce the positive parts of drinking milk.
Silk used to make an almond, cashew, and pea protein milk that hit all the markers; no lactose, almost all the protein, and way less sugar (something as a diabetic I was also looking for). Unfortunately, that one disappeared.
Now it’s all Fairlife for me. No lactose, all the protein, and half the sugar of regular milk (not as low as some other options though). Good enough. And tasty!
I don’t know if you have Kroger near you (or one of their subsidiaries) but the Carbmaster brand they sell is good, and only comes out to 3 grams of carbs per 240ml (8oz glass), which is half of what fairlife has. I started buying it when I got diagnosed diabetic. I don’t eat much cereal anymore but when I do, the milk still tastes good.
I learned about it in school, and you’d have to a drink a huge amount of it to matter at all. There are some edge cases (which may have been proven wrong in the last 15 years) where the estrogen-like compound can cause issues with certain cancers and such. But please do not take this as truth bc I have not looked at it in a lifetime of health science research.