....plant based.....on sale in stores this week......the unusual ingredient is 'cabbage juice concentrate' and 'pineapple juice concentrate'......it 'allegedly' has the best mouth feel like 'real' cow's milk.....
Ingredients
Water, Sunflower Oil, Pea Protein, Contains less than 2% of: Sugar, Pineapple Juice Concentrate, Dipotassium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Gellan Gum, Acacia Gum, Salt, Monocalcium Phosphate, Natural Flavor, Cabbage Juice Concentrate, Vitamin D2, Vitamin B12.
Plant-based NotMilk says it mimics cow's milk. We put it to a taste test
A registered dietitian tried NotMilk — the plant-based milk that says it tastes, feels and functions like cow's milk. Here's how it stacks up.
....Earlier this year I checked out NotMilk for my round up of healthy food trends for the year. NotMilk is made by NotCo, a food brand whose mission is to reinvent favorite foods without the use of animals, while not compromising on taste. They use plant-based ingredients and accomplish this by using artificial intelligence. In fact, their AI has a name — Giuseppe. According to the company, Giuseppe can quickly identify ingredients from plants that are ideal replacements for animal-based products, replicating them based on taste, feel, function and nutritional profile.
While plant-based milks have saturated the dairy aisle the last few years, they are generally categorized by their main ingredient — oats, almonds, coconut, cashew, etc. The difference with NotMilk is that their non-dairy blend is an odd-sounding assortment of plant ingredients, including water, pea protein, chicory root fiber, pineapple juice concentrate, coconut oil and cabbage juice concentrate. That last one may be a head-scratcher, but it’s what Giuseppe came up with.
How does it taste?
Most plant milks function like cow’s milk in the sense that you can use them in the spots where you’d normally use milk — in coffee, cereal and some recipes — but we don’t necessarily expect cashew milk or pistachio milk to taste like cow’s milk. But an AI-created milk that’s meant to actually replace the real thing? That’s a different story.
I tasted NotMilk straight from the fridge, starting with the 2% reduced fat. It was slightly transparent, which reminded me of skim milk. The flavor was pleasant and somewhat sweet, with vanilla notes. The whole milk looks creamier when you pour it but doesn’t have the bright white appearance of dairy milk. The flavor though, in my opinion, is the closest that any non-dairy milk has come to tasting like the stuff from cows.
Both varieties of NotMilk foamed nicely with an electric frother. Both were great in cereal, but the whole milk version tasted better. For coffee I found that the whole NotMilk was tasty but didn’t turn my coffee the expected shade of caramel brown that it does with my organic whole milk. Both versions worked nicely in smoothies, but I preferred the whole milk version in my banana muffin recipe.......
new.......milk substitute........?!
this is the manufacturers......website.......?!
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I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/26/2021 08:38PM by NewtonMP2100.