I saw another study that looked at similar factors and Oat milk seemed to check all the boxes for me, I’ve completely switched over. None of these seem like a magic bullet, but almost anything is better than dairy.
Oat milk just has so many calories and carbs. Hard to use it instead of almond or soy for that reason.
Wait so many calories? I just picked up a random oat milk carton from the fridge and it had 39kcal/100ml and 7.2g or carbs. Other carton has 61kcal and 7.1g. That does not seem high in my opinion, especially if compared to cow’s milk. Though yes it has more than almond (and soy I bet) but the amounts still don’t look high imo.
It’s not bad compared with normal milk, yeah.
Ah, that must be why it tastes good
This makes me want to drink water.
Why is dairy milk still the cheapest?
In case anyone needs to hear it: If you drink plant milk then this chart says you should feel good about yourself! You don’t have to super-duper optimize to two decimal places by forcing yourself to drink a plant milk you don’t like. Good work :)
Why is the eutrophication so high for dairy? I’d think pesticide use would drive up the value on plant-based products. Cows don’t need fertilized grass/hay. Is it from the cow excrement? Wouldn’t excrement be too valuable as a fertilizer and for producing methane power to just let it all run off into streams etc.?
A few things to consider. A minority of cows are free range grass fed, a very small minority are 100% grass fed and free range to an extent that matters, even in the case of 100% grass fed there might be fertilizers used. And make no mistake, cows on open pastures are not a good way to feed the human population from an environmental stand point, probably worse than factory farms honestly. Fields are terrible at sequestering carbon and lack a lot of the biodiversity of the forests most of them historically replaced.
So overall soy is really the best, and almond is a close 2nd.
Almond is really unsustainable climate wise. Nearly all of it is grown in California almost exclusively using aquifer water which is rapidly depleting.
Combine that with wildfires and the correct answer is oats. (Soy is also great)
I recommend saving this chart for the next time somebody tells you almond milk is bad for the environment 😆
