Til the Cows come home
Are nuts and grains turning the cows over? The many milk choices of today.
“Do you want milk in your coffee?” She opened up the fridge with her face clearly disappointed. “Do you have Skim milk? I love almond milk! What about A2, Do you have soy milk? Oat milk? Coconut milk? I see you have rice milk. Yeah, That's ok, just water thanks.”
It's than that I thought, wow! Until the cows really do come home!
Hot milk being poured into that addictive temptress cup of coffee or the very delicate sip and slurp of hot tea and than to have it poured over the brown sugar in a bowl of hot porridge. The white gold contender in milk productions
“COws MILK.”
A birds eye view in a dawn full of poeple moving and synchronising to their own daily morning routines of getting out of bed, and begin the many many tasks before we all get out the door and contribute to the existence of the world.🌎
You could almost go back into time where the milk was the rock of the family on the breakfast table, waiting to be passed around, to be used, to be served, a multi purpose white gold, in baking and cooking, a source of calcium, protein and important nutrients for bone development and muscle functioning. A milk source (in the context of mammals) that was once probably the only or one out of two choices in some countries and cultures.
Admired for being healthy, rich and creamy, filling and extra generous. A promotion of healthy benefits and an excess of milk supply, under the first labour government had school kids receiving free milk in New Zealand between the 1930s to the mid 1960s.
Fast forward to the 2000s, and the milk seems to be spinning into old cottage cheese as more and more people are switching onto the more positive sound of modern type vibe alternative, “nuts and grains milk such as Almond and Oat Milk. Not to take away the importance of having that choice made available for consumers looking for an alternative for medical reasons due to health complications.
The alternatives having a more positive social media presence with the ever rotating life cycle of diet trends focusing on the nut milks having less calories, Even though almond milk (not the actual almond nut by itself) in most alternative nut and grain based brands have added filtered water and containing starches and thickeners and are at times are supplemented with calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin D.
Verses the traditional cows milk having a bad reputation for being too fatty in diet trends but not putting its best foot forward for its natural components of high in natural proteins, fat, and calcium. And most times appearing to be debating the benefits of drinking cows milk for the fear of gaining weight- most cases it makes little to no difference.
I don't know when the cows are coming home, but there's a big wave of alternative milk products out their on our super market shelves turning nuts and grains into milk form, not yet replacing the traditional cows milk but is noticeably growing in super market shelves.
I can still remember the first batches of Almond milk in the local supermarket stores, over the years and slowly growing in numbers from one row column down, from now having rows of shelves dedicated to alternative milk.
I'm all for "bringing back old and new food technologies, the science, research and prolem solving the multiple of issues with all things food- in connection with allergies, demographic and environmental studies and the over all benefits of having such options to our food production and resources.
So I'm not at all trying to spill the milk and spoil the tea on policing the types of milk but it's an observation on the growing types of milk products coming onto the supermarket shelves with a very healthy representation of its branding and slowly down playing natural benefits of the traditional Milk.
A keen home-made researcher as a mother of a child with Malabsorption and Lactose intolerance issues, and two others with food allergies and eczema, over the years have been referred to some many types of milk from our Paediatrician, hospital and general doctor. We could have ran a mini Star bucks coffee drive through, due to the many types of milk recommended into my childrens diet.
But it is worth noting the changes, the trends and the assumptions of the newer milk products on the market being more or less healthier than the traditional cows milk we have all grown up to love or hate.
Until the cows come home.
I recommend seeing a nutritionist, your general doctor and read food labels before trusting any tiktok health reels regarding positive or negative views on milk products.
What type of milk do you have in your fridge?
Do you have more than one type of milk to choose from?
Are the reasons because of Allergies in the family or Healthy life style choices or because its on tiktok trend for fast extreme dieting?