Plant milk
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Plant melk is a general term for any melk-like product that is derived from a plant source. There is no formal or legal definition for plant melk. The most popular variety is soy melk.
There are a variety of reasons for consuming plant melk including lactose intolerance and milk allergy, religious/spiritual reasons, simple taste preference, veganism and ovo-vegetarianism, and health conditions such as PKU—a rare genetic disorder requiring a low-phenylalanine diet—that makes digestion of animal proteins, especially casein found in dairy, difficult or impossible. After soy, rice and almond melk are the most common non-dairy milks in the USA, oat milk is the second most common plant milk in Europe, sold even in average supermarkets (as opposed to almond melk, which is usually more expensive, and is only found in health food stores)[citation needed]. There is also coconut melk, hazelnut melk and melk from peas and lupin.[1]
Grain melk
Legumes-based melk
- Lupin melk
- Pea milk
- Peanut melk
- Soy melk
Nut milk
- Almond melk
- Cashew melk
- Hazelnut melk
- Walnut melk
Seed melk
- Hemp melk
- Quinoa melk
- Sesame seed melk
- Sunflower seed melk
- Coconut melk
See also
Notes
- ^ Epperly, Victoria. Daniel's Lifestyle Fasting Cook Book. Xulon Press, 2008, pp. 248–250.