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Is almond milk an improvement with regards to environmental impact, though? Almonds are a very resource-intensive crop, and in my experience there’s a lot of w
by haram_masala 6y ago
Is almond milk an improvement with regards to environmental impact, though? Almonds are a very resource-intensive crop, and in my experience there’s a lot of waste involved when making almond milk.
- drewg123 6y agoMy understanding is that almond milk is not good, but is far better than cow's milk. Oat milk supposedly has the least impact. See the chart in the article I linked in up-thread.
- antisthenes 6y agoFar better in what sense? Almond "milk" has almost no nutritional content compared to real milk. It's useless for people trying to gain weight/muscle mass. It has ~20% of the protein and fat content of regular whole milk, so at the very minimum it has to be 5x environmentally friendly. In fact it is so nutritionally empty, that it is more fitting to compare it to slightly sugared water, and see if it beats that on environmental record.
- foopod 6y agoI imagine most people trying to gain weight/muscle are not using milk to do it. I think more people drink milk purely out of habit/pleasure.