Whatever you may think about cow’s milk, there’s no denying that non-dairy milk is absolutely delicious. If you have never tasted the cool, creamy, nutty flavour of, say, almond milk you’re missing out in life. One of my favourites is coconut milk – it’s non-fattening, it keeps well in the fridge, it can be used as a compliment to any food just like regular milk, and it is so delicious that once tasted you will always want it.
You can make non-dairy milk from a variety of seeds, nuts, grains, and soybeans. And once made, the milk can be stored in the fridge just like regular pasteurized milk, or it can be frozen for future use.
There is a myth that making non-dairy milk is complicated and that you need special milk-making equipment. Nothing could be further from the truth. Making non-dairy milk requires no special apparatus (just a regular kitchen blender). And if you have the ingredients to hand, you can make milk in less than ten minutes.
One of the biggest advantages of making your own milk is that the ingredients can be stored at home almost indefinitely as ingredients can be frozen without affecting the nutritional value or the quality of the final milk. This means you can make milk whenever you need it, and you will save money compared to the cost of buying milk, whether it is dairy or non-dairy.
The best thing about non-dairy milk is the health aspect. Dairy milk is high in harmful substances such as cancer-promoting hormones, saturated fats, mucus-forming casein, and harmful galactose all of which are bad for health in a variety of ways.
Milk-consumers who change over to non-dairy milk experience a great improvement in health and well-being after just a few days. Apart from benefiting form the better nutrition provided by plant-based milk, you also benefit by avoiding the harmful elements of dairy milk.
As non-dairy milk is made from plant-based ingredients it is truly super-nutritious. It is packed with vitamins, minerals, health promoting oils and enzymes, plant sterols that beat cholesterol, fibre, and other healthy nutrients. Whatever your diet, culture, state of health, or lifestyle you simply cannot go wrong by enjoying non-dairy milk.
But don’t limit yourself to just soy milk and rice milk which you can buy in supermarkets. By making your own milk from ingredients that are easy and cheap to buy anywhere, you will enjoy wonderful new flavours and much improved nutrition.
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