Leading Almond Milk Brand Contains Only 2% Almonds
Tracy Albert and Dimitrios Malaxianis recently brought a lawsuit, claiming false advertising, against Blue Diamond Growers after a British Almond Breeze website revealed that almonds only accounted for 2 percent of its ingredients (the rest being water, sugar, carrageenan and sunflower lecithin), reported FoodNavigator-USA.
Of interesting note, the recipe for making almond milk in the U.S. is quite similar to the one used in the U.K. which likely means there is only a hand full of almonds in our milk as well. If you look on the back of a box of milk, you won’t find the amount used and perhaps we now know why. However, what you do see on the box are the words, “made with real almonds”, which Albert and Malaxianis argue leads people to purchase the product believing they are buying something healthful. Maybe even something full of almonds? In fact, most recipe’s posted online call for only a 25 to 33 percent almond to milk ratio. How is that “almond milk”?
Despite the ongoing lawsuit and its critics, almond milk remains a fantastic alternative for dairy; you can use it to bake with, dunk your gluten free (or any other kind) cookies in it, use it in coffee or tea- any old way you’d use cow’s milk and all without the nasty side effects like inflammation and lactose intolerance symptoms. In fact, make some for yourself at home and it tastes even better. And maybe now we know why.
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Source: Huffpost and Food Navigator
