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These oat-based products are popular because allergies are common. People allergic to milk and/or soy proteins can drink this milk, eat this ice-cream etc
by draugadrotten 9y ago
These oat-based products are popular because allergies are common. People allergic to milk and/or soy proteins can drink this milk, eat this ice-cream etc
- Nekorosu 9y agoIt didn't occur to me. Makes perfect sense.
- BenjiWiebe 9y agoI'm allergic to oats. :(
- Nomentatus 9y agoEveryone is allergic to oats (lectins) if they aren't cooked for a lot longer than the packages say. They easily cause an immune reaction that can have a (standard for infections) 3 day lag.
- allover 9y ago> Everyone is allergic to oats (lectins) Sounds unlikely. Source?
- Nomentatus 9y agoYour packages may have longer times, of course.
- allover 9y agoI just found this article that seems to sum up my skepticism, basically it says "raw beans" can cause lectin-poisoning, not all lectins even seem to be harmful, some even seem beneficial, but some quack nutritionists are blowing "lectin-free" up into the next "gluten-free" fad: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/the-next-gluten/523686/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/the-next-...
- Nomentatus 9y agoI eat a lot of cooked beans (and oats, sometimes) - lectins and other toxins are how plants defend their seed (etc, but seeds are obviously critical for reproduction.) Toxins are quite common in foods, and we deal with most of them well, even raw. Cooking was a massive advance for homo sapiens because it destroys most of these toxins, breaking up large molecules in general. Some plants have more durable toxins than others. Oats are at one extreme end of the spectrum, in good part because seeds are usually small and easier to heavily defend than, say, a root such as a carrot. It's that simple.
- allover 9y agoSo people might be allergic to raw oats, but almost no-one ever buys/consumes raw oats right? Maybe I just jumped the gun and assumed you were making some quack-ish comment that we're all having some kind of micro-allergy everytime we consume oats, when actually you were really just saying people are allergic to raw oats. Apologies. I just had a similar convo with someone that said 'carbs are bad because inflammation' so that probably gave me a hair trigger.
- Double_a_92 9y agoBut why would you then drink some product that tastes nothing like real milk? Just because it is white, sweetish and marketing people called it "<something> milk"?
- tuukkah 9y agoTwo broad alternatives: because it's the best substitute ("somewhat like milk in some way"), or because it's good. It's not like "milk" in "<something> milk" has to refer to the taste of, or to cow's milk at all.
- nailer 9y agoExactly. Milk means you can put it on your cereal and use it in your flat white. It doesn't mean you can turn a 50kg calf into a 500kg bull.
- nailer 9y agoI agree Oatly tastes nothing like cow milk, and I'm not allergic to cow milk, and I dislike Bonsoy and most popular brands of soy milk. That said, I love oatmilk and it's now super common in third wave coffee places in London. It's thicker than regular milk and has a nice creamy taste. One of the head roasters I've spoken to at Grind group mentioned it works like this: (people who like soy and almond milk) (people who like cow and oat milk)