I’m not a big fan of milk. I generally drink Silk soy milk instead. Plenty of our friends have become lactose-intolerant. But now, from Sweden, there’s an alternative to milk: Oatly. A professor of Food Science, Rickard Oste, developed this alternative to milk by using enzymes to liquefy oats into a rich milk that also retained oats’s high fiber content. Oatly has been available in Sweden for 25 years, but now it’s being marketed in the United States in 2018. Our favorite grocery store, Wegmans, will carry Oakly as well as Fairway and ShopRite. Right now, it’s available mostly in coffee shops. Do you like diary products? Would you give Oatly a try?
Nutrition Facts
300ml of Oatly Oat Milk – Oat Milk
Servings:
Calories 135 Sodium 0 mg
Total Fat 5 g Potassium 0 mg
Saturated 1 g Total Carbs 20 g
Polyunsaturated 0 g Dietary Fiber 0 g
Monounsaturated 0 g Sugars 12 g
Trans 0 g Protein 3 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Vitamin A 0% Calcium 45%
Vitamin C 0% Iron 0%
I can’t drink milk any more…I’ve been using Silk products for years (I prefer their coconut milk to soy milk, but either is ok). The funny thing is, yogurt and cheese are funny, but I’ll be sick as a dog if I drink a glass of milk or pour it on my cereal. I’d be willing to give Oatley a try if it shows up here.
Second use of “funny” = fine. That was probably me and not autocorrect.
Deb, my only quibble with OATLY its high price. Hopefully, the price will come down in time as the market for the product grows.
No. We get a gallon of 1% milk at a time at Costco. No soy milk, no other weird sh– stuff. I don’t drink a lot of milk – only in cereal a couple of times a week, and at Starbucks where the coffee is too strong to drink black as I do at home.
Jeff, I’m hoping that BJ’s Warehouse and Sam’s Club eventually carry OATLY. We’re still waiting for COSTCO to come to Western NY. The closest COSTCO is in St. Catherine’s, Canada.
I have a problem with milk so I don’t drink it, but use half and half or soy/almond products in cereal (used to use fruit juice before I discovered soy, etc products and realized how much sugar is in fruit juice) so I’ll happily try this especially the apple pear and orange mango. Milk is the only dairy product I have a problem with and it started in my 30’s
How much are they?
What’s the price for this right now?
My wife has lactose intolerance so she uses lactose free milk in her coffee, while I use regular milk, but not too much.
Last year we got wonderful fresh goat milk from one of our neighbours in Hungary – but now the goats have young ones which need all the milk.
He also made goat cheese – yummy.
The main milk based product for us is Emmental cheese – we use it everywhere and it’s not too expensive.
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Cheese in the USA we found horrible I have to confess …
Wolf, AMAZON has OATLY for $11.95 a liter. Many Americans favor faux-cheese like VELVEETA.
That’s almost 10€! A real luxury!
We get lactose -free milk for around 1€ – regular milk costs less than 1 $ per liter.
Actually I often use “condensed milk” in cans – 10% fat is good for me.
Wolf, I just bought a quart of 2% milk yesterday for $1.19.
I love milk, have since I was a wee tad. I have been drinking not-fat milk for decades, but it’s fine and my milk drinking is for cereal, in scrambled eggs, and by the glass with some foods, such as a cookie or other sweet dessert. I also drink it with some main courses. I ABSOLUTELY am not interested in any sort of milk substitute, whether it be soy, almond, oat or whatever. So yes, love milk, no don’t want this stuff.
Rick, a number of our friends–who used to be milk drinkers–have developed lactose-intolerance as they grew older. Many have switched to soy milk and are interested in OATLY.
George, this would probably go over well at the White House because they are so factose-intolerant.
Wait…I misread the post…lactose, not factose. Never mind.
Jerry, Trump was certainly feeling his oats this week! I feel sorry for McCabe and Rex Tillerson.
Jerry, you made my day!
I’ll try to “translate” this into German so I can use it too …
We are suspicious of the lactose intolerance epidemic. If you can eat or drink any dairy other than milk that is not the definition of the condition. A visit to a reliable doctor might be in order. Sorry to sound snarky but between everybody having this or ADHD, Asbergers ( the spectrum is much larger) or Celiac disease we get the feeling there is way too much self diagnosis going on.
Jackie
Jackie, many people also develop dairy allergies later in life. There is a test for that.
Not to mention everyone who seems to have become gluten intolerant! I agree, Jackie. There was a member of Barbara’s quilt group who claimed gluten intolerance for a couple of years, causing everyone to prepare special meals (the host of the group every 2 weeks provides lunch) before it was let slip that she sometimes eats favorite snacks that have gluten, but “prefers to eat healthier without gluten”. Shock. Most of the women were…bothered.
Lactose intolerance is actually quite normal (especially for people whose ancestors are not from Europe). Mothers produce milk for their babies, and every other species of mammal, except for humans, stops drinking milk once past infancy (humans are also the only other species that drinks the milk of other species). The general rule among mammals is that they stop producing the enzymes to digest lactose once they move past infancy, but a minority of the human population has a genetic mutation that allows for the production of lactose digesting enzymes into adulthood. So some adult humans can properly digest dairy, but most of the world’s population can’t. And of course when you get into the ethics of dairy (there is arguably even more cruelty in the dairy industry than the meat industry), there’s an even bigger reason than milk induced tummy aches to not consume dairy. Have you heard of the brand Elmhurst? They are a local dairy-free milk company that seems to be a favorite among the vegan community. I tried some hot chocolate made with their plant based milk recently and thought it was good.
Lauren, https://oatfinder.oatly.com/cafe/public-espresso-coffee# shows where OATLY can be found in Buffalo. Wegmans announced they are going to carry OATLY. No, I haven’t tried Elmhurst but I’ll look for it. Thanks for the info!
No problem, and thank you for the info as well 🙂
Lauren, as I mentioned in our classes together, I believe the American diet will be forced to become more plant-based.
I do remember you making that prediction almost a decade ago, and it does seem like you were right. I certainly hope that the current trend towards incorporating more plant based foods continues until animal products are eliminated from people’s diets.
Lauren, animal products will continue to be unsustainable. Plant-based food will rule!