UK vegans...help please?!
UK vegans...help please?
Which is the best brand of soya milk? Do they all taste the same cause I'm finding it hard to get used to? Advice please :)
Additional Details1 month ago
Flamekat....you go girl! Very informative, cheers x
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1 month ago
Flamekat....you go girl! Very informative, cheers x
Well, I think Alpro is probably the most pleasing to the majority of people. I also like Soya Soleil. All the brands do have their own taste, so experimenting is worth your while. You may prefer starting off with a sweetened version. Also, might I suggest not drinking it by the glass for the first few weeks. I think once you get used to it on cereal or in your tea or coffee, drinking it by the glass will be nicer for you. One of my non-veggie friends said that he found it quite nice once he accepted that fact that it's not going to taste like cow's milk.
As for animals having to work for a living. I don't think torturing animals on factory farms for their eggs and milk qualifies as "working." And unfortunately, free range doesn't really mean much. My fiance's family lives right next to a farm with certified "free range" chickens that are kept indoors due to the new regulations concerning avian flu.
As for vegans "tainting" the vegetarian cause, I find it to be more the other way around. I feel like vegetarians are undermining the fight for animal rights by continuing to support an industry they claim to dislike as well as continuing to support cruelty to animals. I'd be very interested to see evidence of this study claiming that children require dairy products. My brother is allergic to milk and hasn't consumed it since he was a few days old. Plenty of children all around the world are raised without dairy products to no detrimental effect either because of cultural reasons, allergies, or veganism. Even the USDA endorses a vegan diet as appropriate for all ages. The BBC article linked to above does not exclude vegans from the vegetarian group, so that really doesn't support an argument that vegans are not healthy.
I find Alpro the best. The blue carton may be nicer as it's sweetened. It's got a creamy taste which makes it much nicer than most brands. However, Tesco Value seems to be pretty much the second best - and is cheap and organic too!
Whilst applauding your concern for animal welfare I must strongly disagree with your decision to be a vegan.
All animals, not just humans, must work for their living and if this means chickens laying eggs (in a free range environment) or cows producing milk, then I am all in favour of it.
Vegans don't just taint themselves they taint vegetarians like myself. It has been clearly shown that denying young children dairy products is harmful to their development so by adhering to a vegan diet you are undermining the cause we are trying to promote.
Vegetarians have been shown to be the intellectual elite:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/618075...
Alpro is nice, but some soya milks taste too sweet to use in vegan savoury cooking. For instance, I once totally ruined a broccoli and pasta in vegan bechamel sauce by using unsweetened Alpro! Oat Supreme is an interesting alternative to use on cereal (though no good if you have an oat intolerance!).
I find rice milk is the best to cook with, by a million miles. Also, plain rice milk is tasty enough to drink by itself.
Plamil also make some really good soy milks, but not many supermarkets stock them (you can pick them up from a health food shop).
I also use Alpho blue but find it quite expensive. the second best I find is Tesco regular soya milk (in a cream coloured carton) it a lot cheaper too, at 67 pence.
I use Alpro, Tesco or Holland and Barrett - all of them sweetened with apple juice extract and with calcium and vitamins. I think on its own, soya milk tastes much better if it's sweetened, while if you need it to cook you can try the unsweetened version. All of the above are long-life, as all fresh soya milk types I've come across so far contain sugar (raw cane mostly), or sucrose, etc. - which makes them taste nice, but I'd rather have it sweetened with apple juice extract as I drink it daily, I think it's slightly healthier.
I had the same problem. I found Alpro stuff to sweet so I tried supermarkets own brand. I found Tesco's tastes like water and that Asda's is the best. Its thick like cows milk and is sweetened with a little apple juice which means it tastes better with more cereal. That is 1 problem I had was figuring out which cereal goes with soya milk. I would 100% recommend asda's. Also try health shops. They have a wide variety of different soya milks that you don't get at supermarkets.