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TL;DR: Oatly (oat milk) is primarily sugar and canola oil. Both are bad in large quantities.
by treyfitty 6y ago
TL;DR: Oatly (oat milk) is primarily sugar and canola oil. Both are bad in large quantities.
- kranner 6y agoIt also has oats, though only 10%.
- 1propionyl 6y agoCareful. Oatly's ingredient listing is potentially deceptive. The ingredients are listed as: > Oat base (water, oats 10%), rapeseed oil, ... That is, the oats make up 10% of the oat base, which is the most prominent ingredient, not of the entire product. The other ingredients which I've elided are things like stabilizers, preservatives, and so on, so they likely don't account for more than 1% of the total product. Now let's assume the worst case: that Oatly is 50% "oat base", and 49% canola oil, and 1% additives. This would be consistent with their ingredient labeling. Then, Oatly would actually only contain 5% of oats.
- ses1984 6y agoIf you want your post to seem reasonable maybe estimate a level of canola oil lower than 49%, it can be calculated from the fat content in a serving.
- eptcyka 6y agoThe same can be said about milk - it's just sugar and fat, suspended in water. All 3 are bad in large quantities.
- lambdaba 6y agoExcept one has an industrial polyunsaturated fat, the other actually suitable for a mammal saturated fat. That's a huge difference.
- rorykoehler 6y agoOatley has loads of different varieties. The sugar content in the barista one is low enough that I can drink 3 flat whites a day and stay in Ketosis.
- crispyporkbites 6y agoAre you concerned about weight loss? Why not just switch to espresso?
- rorykoehler 6y agoNot concerned about weight loss. Body fat is already almost too low. Doing it to modulate my immune system.
- zaroth 6y agoThe sugar content in the “Barista” edition is exactly the same as their ordinary version. Total calorie content is 59kcal/100mL versus the regular version which is 46kcal/100mL. The difference is they add dipotassium phosphate to prevent separating when the milk hits the hot coffee. By talking about “Low enough to stay in Ketosis” you are practicing the techniques discussed in TFA perfectly. Almost makes it sound like this special edition is lower in sugar, when it’s in fact the same sugar and higher calorie.
- rorykoehler 6y agoI don't buy the other ones so I never check the nutrients.
- thomasahle 6y agoI don't think that's quite what it says. > Oatly compares their sugar to the sugar in cow’s milk, but they’re not the same sugar. Lactose, the sugar in cow’s milk, has a GI of 46. Since the GI is a measure of how much of a negative response your body has to certain sugars, the 7g of sugar in Oatly with its 100+ GI is actually potentially worse than the 12g of sugar in whole milk with a 46 GI. We can use something called the “glycemic load” to measure this, which gives us a GL for the sugar in 8oz of Oatly of 7.35, and a GL for the sugar in 8oz of whole milk of 5.52. Oatly’s glycemic load is about 33% higher than milk’s is! The article says the glycemic load is higher than of milk, but not anywhere near the glycemic load of 14 of Coke (or 16, depending on where you are in the world http://www.glycemicindex.com/foodSearch.php?num=516&ak=detail http://www.glycemicindex.com/foodSearch.php?num=516&ak=detai...) This makes me think the title is at best referring the the over-the-top marketing, and at worst being pretty misleading.