I can't believe how big He has gotten the giant companies like Geico will sponsor him. It's really cool to look back at how much he has grown as a creator.
I was thinking the same thing. The inclusion was a bit jarring to me and I'm still not convinced that it's not a joke, but I love this channel coming so far to be able to quote everyones favorite gecko 😂
Another category I would have liked to have seen is how long each milk lasts before it spoils, both refrigerated and non-refrigerated. Milk alternatives might not be as econimic as dairy milk at the time of purchase, but if you're someone who doesnt actually use milk all that often, maybe having it last longer is better in the long run.
To quote *doesitgobad* : Shelf-stable soy milk lasts for a few months past the printed date. Refrigerated soy milk, on the other hand, keeps only for about a week past its date. Once you open a bottle or carton, you should finish it within 5 to 10 days, no matter the type.
Another category that would have been pretty important to add imo would be environmental impact during growing and harvest, I've been told almonds take up a lot of water to grow, which is sad because it's the milk alternative that enjoy the most
As someone on an intermittent fasting diet, and can't eat until noon; and didn't eat breakfast as a teenager; I doubt it. Actually that was one of the things that came up when I was looking at starting interment fasting. From a weight loss perspective, it doesn't seem to matter when you eat your food, either as one or two big meals or six small meals throughout the day, only matters how much you're eating throughout the day. However, there are some advantages of restricting the time window of when you can eat. It improves insulin sensitivity, which can help decrease your risk of type 2 diabetes. You're also training your body not to eat during certain times so your body stops producing those hunger hormones when you are fast. Granted it does take about a month for your body to adjust, and it can be difficult those first few weeks.
@@himuka98 Here in Brazil as well. I didn't even know you could drink coconut milk, my mother always told me not to. But makes sense since it's too expensive for drinking.
As someone who is lactose intolerant this has been very helpful. I don't drink any kind of milk, that being cows milk or any other kind, just straight up. Usually I only have milk with cereal and it's usually almond milk because I personally like it and I have no objections for buying it.
Same here. Well, I mean for the most part. I love dairy milk, but the idea of us humans drinking. It has kind of started to seem bizarre to me lmao the more I think about it. Regardless, though I love dairy byproducts like cheese and cream cheese. It’s harder to find those without lactose :(
the best option to me has been lactose free milk which is just cow milk(moo juice) with lactose removed. It tastes exactly the same and the texture is also very similar without any of the bloating. It’s honestly been kinda life changing
As someone who is both lactose intolerant and allergic to both soy and almonds, I can rest easy now knowing I've been making the best choice for myself all along with my oat milk purchases
@@jojomojo508 You know people can be allergic to pretty much everything right? Also who are you to try to say what they are or are not allergic to when they are telling you others wise?
An important reason that a lot of people even choose to drink non dairy milk is it's environmental impact, which from what I've read Oat is the best and rice and almond are the worst due to how much water rice and almonds need to grow
Rice is a staple food and 90% of it is grown and consumed in Asia and nearly third of it is being wasted. We can't change the amount of rice being grown, but we can use it in as many ways as possible to avoid that wastage
Bruh this editing, this is literally insane, the amount of work that goes into editing, researching, and writing on these episodes is insane, Kutos to yall
I settled on oat milk as my favorite due to the good taste but more so because it has one of the lowest environmental impacts. I don’t need milk to fill nutritional gaps so that matters more to me. Thanks for the thorough research! 🙌🏻
This entirely. Oat milk requires the least amount of water to produce out of all the alternative milks. And if you live in an area that grows grain, it's very local and requires minimal transportation. The flavour, as seen in this video and in my opinion, is the most universally usable. I drink dairy alternatives by choice, and I don't go out of my way to convince others, but I hear the same story: "they all taste awful" I suggest oat milk and they come back saying it's great. I find it's the easiest one for dairy drinkers to transition to. Plus in my area, the oat milk is the same price as all the other alternatives.
Here's an interesting piece of information I know. "Raw milk", that is unprocessed milk straight from the animal, don't cause discomfort for lactose intolerant people. If you're lactose intolerant, you can drink it no problem. The reason the milk you buy in stores is problematic has to do with the pasteurization process.
@@ferretzim8694 That is absolutely false. It is a bogus claim made by companies that sell raw milk and various "natural medicine" sites, but is demonstrably false. Studies by both the FDA and Stanford University of Medicine have found that there is literally no difference between raw milk and pasteurized milk when it comes to the impact they have on people with lactose intolerance, as they contain the same amount of lactose and the bacteria present in the raw milk do not aid in breaking it down in any meaningful way. At best, the claims made by raw milk sellers are backed by anecdotal claims by customers that either believed themselves to be lactose intolerant even though they aren't, or people that are lactose intolerant but are experiencing a placebo effect due to the claims made by the raw milk sellers. Please stop spreading misinformation. It can legitimately cause harm.
In parts of Asia, soy milk is actually cheaper than cow milk. It also tastes *much* richer and stronger than what you get in American grocery stores, which have been specifically processed to remove the "bean" taste.
@@JamesLyda dude, soy-boy propaganda isn’t really something to be including in a more scientific setting. Go be an alpha male in the corner, and let us drink soy. I don’t even drink soy and I’m mad.
I think MatPat is the only UA-camr that can run 4 channels and upload amazing content while uploading weekly.Keep up the amazing content MatPat!(with his team by he side helping make a amazing video)
my niece is lactose intolerance, so I've been experiencing with cooking and baking with different milks, and let me tell you there is more then just minor differences. texture, density, bake time, flavor changes. it all makes a huge difference. I don't like cooking with almond milk as the almond flavor will come through real strong. oat is great for baking cookies and cakes. coconut milk is fun for coconut flavored things, but using it as a stock for soups and curry is the way to go. if you want to make Alfredo sauce, I found the best is to use the Lactose free milk. it's real milk just the Lactae removed and it works so good for Mac n cheese and Alfredo. pair it with vegan parm and you are set
I love homemade oatmilk for my alfredo sauce. I wasnsuper delighted at how creamy it turned out. I like to blend my own oats for milk because it works out to be cheaper overall and I only make the am of oat juice that I need lol
I have noticed rice milk produces very similar texture but a lighter sweeter taste so if you like that I reccomend it especially in baking. same with rice flour. my friend is gluten free and the biggest difference between regular flour and brown rice flouur is it's grainier and holds moisture better so the combination of it with rice or regular milk makes really good cakes
I’m lactose intolerant and love baking & cooking and i just always use lactose free. Unless it say butter milk & idk a good alternative but it doesn’t effect me really so might not have the find one. The only option of these in the video i use to drink is almond since the rest is either bad taste or weird texture. Especially soy & oat. And flavored milk besides chocolate 😡😡
There is an important test missing that was mentioned early in the video: How well each milk pairs with cereal. My favourite of all of these for drinking is oat milk, but in my experience it is terrible for cereal - it just does not absorb well.
I eat a lot of granolas and porridge and hate the taste of cow milk. I love my oat milk because it blends in but does add more flavour and sweetness. I don't like most "desert for breakfast" cereals as I like to call them.
Chobani Oat is the most amazing I’ve seen!! I eat cereal on an almost daily basis and when I started getting sick drinking cow milk I was scared to try alts bc of how they pair with cereal. I’ve tried three different brands of oat milk and chobani oat is the best in my personal experience. If you don’t mind the taste of Pea milk Thts okay too. But I hate the way it tastes.
I'm honestly surprised there wasn't even a comment on how long these alternatives last. I get oat milk SPECIFICALLY because of how much longer it lasts than dairy milk does. I cant finish a half gallon by myself of normal milk but i can with oat milk because where I'm at the best by date is ~3x longer.
Yeah. Milk says "once opened, consume within 3 days". There's no way the four of us can consume such a big bottle that fast. We probably could if we drank it rather than just using it in our cereal and on our tea, but we don't. Meanwhile, Oatly milk says "once opened, consume within 5 days." Way longer. Plus, before you open it, Oatly milk can last months.
Of everything I was expecting to see in this video, an Ash face reveal was definitely not one of them! But I'm so happy to know that they now feel comfortable enough with the Theorist crew and fans to decide to show themselves on camera! I now really hope that we'll get to hear some Witty Banter about this experience on the next GTLive!
You forgot environmental impact, like how much land and water is needed to grow, how long and hard to grow etc, but make it simple oat is probably the best based on enviromental
Yeah, I saw an article about that topic once. Oat and soy were the top two, IIRC. All plant-based milks did far better on environmental measures than cow milk.
@@kane2742 yes the plowed fields requiring thousands of gallons of fuel, fertilizer and pesticides with excessive water usage are far better than pastures which arnt able to support crop farming (like half the country’s non mountainous land) along with the fact that unlike people cows can eat the whole plant which gives us access to far more of the energy each acre of crops yield. Fun fact the farming operations in California use 80% of the water used by the entire state. Not to mention the fertilizer and pesticide runoff and the algae blooms those cause along with lasting effects on the environment.
Very interesting question but it's hard to find where to even start with this. As someone said below, farms need lots of water and pesticides. But at the same time, cows do need feed and that also affects the environment. Then there's the debate whether it's better to farm food or raise animals and exploit them, whether farming is good because of how it'll affect the land and air, etc. Really interesting topic.
@@walter3934 cows are able to live their entire life on pastures eating grass and while it’s not always feasible to keep them on pasture year round especially in colder climates it still offsets feed requirements but beyond that cattle and other ruminant mammals can extract energy from farming waste we can’t eat such as plant stalks or fruits/veggies that didn’t make it past quality control due to pest damage or other things. The important thing to note here is that half the land in America isn’t suitable for sustainably farming crops but has no issues growing grass which you can then just cut and put in storage bunkers where it’s turned into silage which can make up the bulk of what cattle eat. That’s what a lot of dairy farmers do already. Factory farming of animals is obviously worse for the animal but it’s hard to say if it’s significantly worse for the environment as yes now you require more feed to support your operation but you take up significantly less space and you get other offsets like tones of manure which can be used as a natural fertilizer or to produce energy. Personally I think that even if it ends up being better for the environment factory farming has moral issues that can’t be overcome chief among them being the animal deserves a decent life without the excessive suffering that comes with being locked up in a pen for its entire life. There really isn’t an easy answer here as for what’s best for humans or the planet and no matter your views on eating meat short of foraging for berries it’s impossible to eat without the death of millions of animals be it cattle on ranches or rodents and birds killed by plows and pesticides.
I've typically used coconut milk for thai and other southeast-asian dishes - its flavor (while not like milk at all) typically suites that flavor profile quite well. It might not serve as a milk ALTERNATIVE, but it does function just fine when used in the right context.
What they used in the video is not the same thing as the cooking coconut milk that is used in Asia. There are 2 types of coconut milk. 100% Coconut milk that is meant for cooking and coconut milk drink or beverage which is diluted coconut milk so that you can drink it.
I only buy unsweetened Silk brand coconut milk🥛to drink as it doesn't taste like water. It has a rich delicious flavor and never gets lumpy out of the carton.
I'm lactose intolerant, and I'll blankly state, Soy is my GO TO, for everything, 'cause its so much more like milk I even realized that Lactose was my problem, because I went over to Soy, for the taste, and stopped having pains
@Shorts From The Pit hahh don't have to :P I feel like it enhances the flavor of everything else its mixed with :P so I would actually rather have soy, which is nice when I need it XD
It feels like boomers are watching this channel, but it's millennials who are supposed to be their clients now, feels weird that millennials are supposed to be the super consumers now.
Plenty of people have the numbers this channel does but with more "risky" content. So it's less about doing well and more about being a safe option for advertising.
For me, nothing beats the taste of freshly made soy milk. Having fresh soy milk for the first time, especially if you've only had the supermarket stuff in the past, is like having some really good, freshly made coffee for the first time after only having tried bad instant coffee. The taste is indescribably good.
How do you make yours? For some reason I’m not allergic to soy, but I am allergic to all soy milk found at the store. I think it could be a preservative issue since I do have a lot of allergies but soy itself is not one of them. I think making soy milk at home might be fun to try!
@@honeybloom8533 I make soy milk every week and it’s super easy! I got a soy milk maker years ago from Amazon. All I do is soak 1 cup of dried soybeans overnight in some water, then the next morning I drain them, put them in the maker, fill with water to the line, push the button, and in less than an hour I have fresh, piping hot soy milk! :) It’s dirt cheap, tastes amazing, has no preservatives, and lasts about a week in a bottle or jar in the fridge! Not that it ever sits around that long before I drink it all. 😊
As a person allergic to dairy, this was interesting. I had no idea there was cashew or pea milk. Never saw them here. Might be something to test. I guess they haven't gotten popular or big enough to get put in the grocery stores in smaller towns. And NO not lactose intolerant... allergic, as in my tongue and throat burns, my lips get puffy and I have some difficulty breathing. The number of times I tried to ask if a dish had dairy getting told 'it's just a tummy hurt, they make pills for that' when trying to get something while I'm out is astounding.
I was allergic to dairy, yes was… I somehow grew out of it, growing up I always had the same problem as you with people thinking I meant intolerance and it was the most annoying thing ever, we always drank rice milk at my house and it wasn’t that bad, I actually prefer the taste of it to normal milk, what did you have growing up or what do you have now?
Back when I was in school, there was a boy in my class who was severely allergic to dairy. We all had to be super careful cause even getting a little bit of traces on him would make him go into allergic shock. Eating a cookie with milk in it could've killed him. Didn't know there was also less severe versions of dairy allergy like yours though.
We actually use pea milk for the coffee at my job. You can store it for long times in room temperature and even though it doesn't foam as well it foams good enough. Is it milk protein allergy? Dairy allergy is such a bad term that is sometimes used for it, so confusing. Most people i know that have it says milk protein allergy since it makes it easier to understand.
I hate all kinds of milk but i still drink it cause its has fats, i read the nutritional label on the back occasionally and it always bothered me how much grams of cholestorol it had, now that i drink cashew milk i hate the taste of milk even more, thank you matpat
When it comes to cost, dairy milk is heavily subsidized. If almond or soy milk was subsidized just as much, they'd probably be around the same cost or cheaper than what dairy is currently
However they're just as bad for the environment and take up more land so that would probably never happen. Before you tell me it's not bad for the environment allow me to explain. The amount of trees needed to grow enough to supply the country, takes up so much water that is insane, and since they are primarily grown in California this is an issue. Add that to the over stress it puts on the bee population and you've got even bigger issues. Soy is also a massive water hog, and both take more acreage than any dairy farm every thought of needing.
SO, I'm curious how these would stack up against a lactose-free dairy milk like Lactaid. That has been my go to since becoming more lactose intolerant, and I gotta say, for the milk taste alone, it beats all the other alternatives I've tried.
this is what we give my 15-month-old son. He can still get whole milk, without the issue of lactose, and I'm uncomfortable giving him so much soy because of the high estrogen amounts.
If anyone is up for it, I recommend watching a video on UA-cam called "Dairy is Scary" by Erin Janus. It's only 5 minutes long and it might give some info about dairy. Wishing everyone agreat day
I want to thank Team Theorist. I've been using almond milk for years, but thanks to this vid, I tried soy milk and it is SO much better. I only used almond to cook, but I can actually drink soy.
The number 3 spot is not bad! For the longest time before I was drinking soy milk. Then years on down the line when almond milk became more readily available I started using it for my breakfast shakes, frappes etc. Still drink regular milk on occasion and prefer using it for baking/cooking. It's been a long time since I've last drank soy milk. But it's still really good in my book. Especially Silk's soy eggnog come the holidays! Which I really miss because for some reason my Wal-Mart doesn't carry it anymore for years now 😭!
For price, milk likely has a foot up because a LOT of grocery stores will sell milk for a loss to bring customers in to shop. Milk wars have occurred, where places like Wal-mart will drop their milk prices to bring in customers. A lot of people will shop where milk is cheapest, especially during the school season where lots of cereal is eaten. Milk alternatives are seldom, if ever, sold at a loss. Next time you walk into wal-mart, ask the dairy clerk to scan a jug of milk and see how much of a loss that jug is selling for. I htink it was somewhere around 30% when I last worked there. This is also why convenient stores sell milk for almost double the price, but alternatives are around the same price. They can not afford the several dollars loss on the sale.
@@dieptrieu6564 The only part harder about making plant milk is the conversion of raw material into milk. For cow milk, you have to take care of cattle, feed them (and grow that food), and milk each cow individually. The only other reason cow milk is cheaper is due to the economics of scale since dairy is a large established industry compared to alternative milks.
@@dieptrieu6564 well "easy" as in there's less human involvement, sure; but I'd argue raising and milking cattle while also keeping them all producing milk is pretty difficult and expensive. it's cheaper in stores bc of what OP has stated from their experience with supermarkets, and also because the industry has been around way longer and has had the time and resources to find cost effective work arounds (which often involves further abuse and exploitation of the animals & employees) like MatPat mentioned with soy & oat milk being cheaper than pea milk
or cuz milk alternatives are just over priced like most of these alternative stuff that are not great nutriently. Just buy normal milk, just looking at this video should be enough to show that normal milk is cheaper and healther.
My kids and I love using almond milk for our smoothies specifically BECAUSE it doesn't froth well lol we hate the foamy layer on top after we blend regular milk. Also, I can usually find almond milk on a good sale or rebate! I haven't tried oatmilk yet and it's been decades since I've had soymilk, so maybe we'll give those a go soon 😊 thanks for the awesome video, great research guys!
I buy mine from a farm down the road.. fresh from the tank, sometimes it's still warm. It's rich and creamy and goes good a a supplement for my diet and workout routine. 👍
Another factor you didn’t consider: environmental impact. From what I’ve heard almond milk is horrible due to how much water is needed. Cow milk also has a lot of overhead & resources. I wonder what the best pick is in that regard. Give Chidi an option so he doesn’t go to the bad place ;)
Yeah honestly surprised froth was up there but not environmental impact. I’m guessing that would have taken too much time as that would be material for a video itself.
Dairy farmers have been failing as he said so while almond milk takes more water than other alternatives it is nowhere near the amount of water animal milk uses. The cows need to drink water we all know that but one overlooked factor is the plants the animal is eating. If your dairy cows are grass fed which less than 5% are than this would still be an issue since it’s more convenient to grow your own grass as a farmer than pick up surrounding grass. Don’t take my word on that 5% but I’m talking about dairy cows I know cows raised for meat alone have 10% be grass fed.
it would be interesting to know wich of them is the most "environment frienly", because i had been told that soy needs a lot of land and clean water to produce than perhaps, oat
I have heard otherwise from soy milk but I will be researching for it ;) At the end of the day dairy milk is the environentally worst if we were to compare it and aslong as you pick a milk alternative it would be better off
I have seen some other video from ASAP science saying that Oat milk would the most environmentally friendly.. I'm sure a lot has changed by now, but it can still be a good source of info Here's the link to the video: ua-cam.com/video/8ZiD2W8vSXE/v-deo.html
13:26 as someone who works in the agronomy industry, I can also tell you that soy milk is going to be cheap because a lot of soy is produced. I mean a lot of soy. Not only does soy have a lot of applications, it's also a good companion crop to re- enrich the soil for growing corn so you have a lot of farmers alternating between soybeans and corn. We end up making a lot more soy than the market would really call for as part of corn production which has a ton of applications. Remember soy and corn are used for things other than food. With corn, you have ethanol. With soy, you have biodiesel. Also a ton of animal feed and silage is made from soy So yeah, soybeans are easy to grow, grown in abundance and really maximized through bioscience so it does not surprise me at all that soy milk is cheap.
Did anyone else notice how, “the definitive guide to the best milk alternatives on the market,” (at 17:48) put oat milk in first place? I thought that was an odd error.
While I don't disagree with this analysis, isn't cow's milk heavily subsidized too? Also, for water usage (to make a gallon of milk) I think pea/oat are the best, which is important for future water conservation and even overall environmental impact.
@@Disharm0ny That's my major consideration for milk alternatives as well. I really liked the taste of oat milk, but the one time I bought a carton of it, it had a noticeable grittiness to it, like the fibre hadn't been properly filtered out.
@@Disharm0ny That's a great point, though possibly the pea milks have the better protein to water usage ratio, I wonder if someone has done an analysis
yeah, I wish they had actually cover that in this video. Like, my personal favorite non-dairy milk is almond, but I don't really drink it anymore because so much water is wasted when actually even growing the almonds themselves...
The info I really want (especially when comparing prices) is how long the milk will last in the fridge after opening. I switched from dairy to oat milk because dairy would always go bad before I can use it. Oat, on the other hand, will last in the fridge for almost double the amount of time as dairy. This makes it a lot less expensive overall because I don't have to pour half of the tub out and buy a new one every time I decide to bake a cake on a whim
@@TharzZzDunN some people just dont use enough milk, and/or live by themselves. I could go out and buy a single quart of milk and it will absolutely go bad before i use it all, its just too much milk for how short the shelf life is after you open it. If you dont religiously eat cereal or live with multiple people then you can easily struggle to use up milk before it goes bad. in an ideal world an opened jug of milk would last an entire month before it sours, this is not an ideal world.
@@Draganot1 it's such a pain. I know I would go between 2 and 4 pints since some weeks I used up the 4 pints and sometimes I wouldn't finish the 2 pints. Getting rid of milk is rid6
As a person who has not been able to drink milk for a LONG time now due to discovering I have eoe (eosinophilic esophagitis) which makes my throat more sensitive to allergies (the eosinophilic part), this is pretty accurate depiction of fake milk.
I'm drinking and baking with plant-based milks since I'm a little child. Because my mom lives vegan, and yeah, even now my dad and I only use soy, rice and oat milks and it is just as good for baking, or making a coffee in my dad's case. Nice seeing this beeg research and all of ma favorite YT team test it. Very cool video. Actually, my dad's friend only likes cow milk so sometimes we have that at home, but we always get rid of it as fast as we can before it spoils. xD
Soy isn't healthy. Messes with hormones. I'd avoid it if I where anything other than a post menopausal women.... Especially if you've been living off of it for years like that... Just some friendly advice.
when i was 8 years old it was discovered that i was allergic to milk proteins, so i've been consuming non-dairy milk and products for the past two decades. the non-dairy market has changed A LOT since then
@@newbienoobframebyframe4108 I've been drinking it rarely compared to oak and rice. And I didn't had it in like 5 years. Never heard of that hormone thing tho
First of all, Love the video, love pretty much all the videos from your channels But I did want to point out your chart from ~ 17:49 swapped the soy milk and oat milk's places Making oat take first over soy, differing from what was said in the video And again, Love your stuff, hope all of Team Theorist is doing great=D
Same, it really bugged me to see the results being swapped so I was about to comment but saw this, I hope they fix it, gonna provide mom with soy milk now because of her heart problems or almond if she wants to cut some cals.
My family, a very dairy intolderant family, has 2-3 cartons of milk open at a time- almond for cooking, soy for frothing, and rice (sometimes oat) for cereal
as another dairy free family, we also have varieties, usually oat and soya. we never get rice milk in as we have a child and its not suitable for under 5yo, so not worth it for us atm
Crazy seeing Ash in person but also super exciting! They've quickly become a favourite team member of mine since they joined and I really hope we get to see more of them 💜 Edited for pronouns
@@Lisa-Marie-xw6ek i believe theyve said they go by they/she ? something i heard but not entirely sure since matt usually says she on gtlive and mirror matt mainly uses they
Me too.... I have been trying milk alternatives for 2months now, trying to find one that tastes better because I love milk, I atleast had a cup daily my entire life
I don't care how convenient of a analogue it is, using Gardevoir as a "female plant" instantly made me pause the video and write this comment while my brain hurts
lol. Same. The perils of being an adult who grew up with Pokemon. Instant reaction: "Really Matpat? After all the Pokemon research, you Ok'd a psychic fairy as a 'plant' because it has green hair?"
I’ve had a lot of soy milk over the years because my mom had to go gluten and dairy free due to food sensitivities, but I think cashew milk has one of the best tastes and textures. I’ve tried pretty much all of these and I would say that soy is a good whole milk alternative, but it’s best to have it in moderation as it gets very heavy very fast. Cashew milk is one of the few that I’ve never had any problems with, I hope they start putting it in more stores soon.
Since I am Lactose intolerant, I had to find a cheap af alternative to the 'moo juice'. I chose Soy overall because of its cheap pricing- but now I know that it has all this great facts about it I feel more confident about my choice :D I really rooted for Soy Milk this episode and so glad it came on top 💪😏
@@cga7701 Yeah same, idk why but something about Soy milk just stuck out to me and I rooted for it despite not only never trying it but never trying any milk alternatives, it's kinda like how so many Jedi betrayed the order to follow Revan into the Mandalorian wars despite Revan going completely against the order and it's code
Look into A2 milk. Many, many people who felt they were lactose-intolerant have reported being able to drink A2 milk and not experience the same problems.
fun fact! i am actually allergic to casein. as a toddler i would drink about a gallon of milk a day and around 8 years old i developed really intense stomach pain. i was tested for celiac, lactose intolerance and many other things all coming back negative. i was diagnosed with stomach migraines after 5 years of doctors visits. didn’t find out until i was 15 that it was casein causing the problem
Hemp milk is a good source of Omega 3 protein. Hemp is Low Water Use-- especially in cooler rainy areas. Hemp grows in many climates, soil/mix/mediums, marginal land, greenhouse and/or hydroponic hemp grows easily from any combination of processes of at least 1 step: seed, transplant, cutting & clone.
I tried it once but it tasted bad and didn't foam. Maybe best to keep it as a protein extract product and fibre crop, but each to their own. As long as it's not an animal's milk, it's a good milk.
Hemp destroys the soil that it's grown in by sucking all of the nutrients out of it. While it might be fine in small amounts, growing at large scale is not ideal.
@@tohstygohstygal Hemp does the opposite of your claim. It improves soil quality. That’s why farmers often plant hemp in their soil in preparation for a different crop to be planted. Even if it didn’t work this way we could grow it in hydroponic solutions, rendering soil obsolete.
I love oatmilk in coffee. It has a really nice oaty flavor that pairs well with a lot of different kinds of coffees and the frothability don't hurt either.
I wish environmental impact was also discussed, seeing as that is an important factor for a lot of people who switch over to plant-based milks. Additionally, delving into that side of things would have given more context for the price comparison - right now there are a lot of subsidies that dairy producers can take advantage of but that is not the case for the plant-based alternatives. I would really love to watch a video exploring these topics in relation to more environmentally sustainable food :)
This would immediately tank Almond to near bottom. The water impact alone, especially growing them in Cali is a straight up crime. But nuts in general I don't think would score well here. I can't imagine it will help coconut move up much, though. I would also like to see the price adjusted for without subsidies, in the interest of fairness.
I’m Irish and statistically I’m not lactose intolerant but even I feel its weird how much milk as a stand alone product is pushed. It seems more like an ingredient. It would be like pushing flour as an important part of your breakfast.
Oat milk is good and all, but... Buckwheat milk. I don't know if US and other western countries even consider buckwheat food like we are. The taste of "milk" is much more unique and cooler imo.
I tried many types of milk as a coffee additive. Currently almond, oat and soy milks are out due to their strong flavor taking over the coffee's presense. Diluted coconut milks are the best, but still not on-par with cow milk.
Alright, so now we know the best non-milk milk. Now we need a part 2 though, discussing which "regular" milk is the best! Will it be a slam dunk for the good old cows are will alternatives like goat milk actually be able to compare?
I'm so glad that soymilk came out on top because I love soymilk and have been drinking it all my life due to a former dairy allergy. Once the allergy was gone, I tried cow milk and hated it, so great job soy milk👏
When my lactose intolerance got so bad that I had to cut out dairy milk (until lactose free dairy milk came along), I tried all the alternative milks to work out which was the best - but, being British, my test was based on which mixed best in a cup of tea. To which, soya milk ran away with the prize; it was the only alternative milk to mix well in tea at all! All the other alternative milks broke down and became powdery. So, OK, I wasn't mad about the taste of soya milk, but it did what I wanted the best and I got used to the taste so it *is* the best alternative milk, to go in a cup of tea, at least.
Nice to see some Cashew representation. As someone who drinks copious amounts of milk and performed my own research into alternatives, I think it absolutely blows the other options out of the water. Alone, it tastes really good with an excellent texture and has a flavour profile that doesn't conflict with my cereal. In some ways, I actually like it better than dairy - which I can't say about any of the other alternatives except one niche use-case: coconut milk is really bad - unless you use it for baking and desserts! Depending on the recipe, it can even be better than the real stuff.
Have you considered hemp milk? IMO hands down the best. And since it’s hemp which is a weed it uses a lot less water to actually grow. And it has omegas.
@@FukaiKokoro I think, from that perspective, oat milk is probably better since oat crops require less water than hemp. Hemp actually takes a lot of water to grow compared to grain crops, but it's true that it's still much better than growing nuts.
I found this extremely interesting as I am currently exploring non dairy options. I can't have Almond because I'm allergic, I used soy for a while,. It I have a mild allergy and too much will have an adverse effect. I drank cashew for a while but started breaking out into hives when I found the brands I drank were made with almond milk. I liked ripple (pea) but it's too expensive in the amounts that I drink it. Oat is what I'm drinking now, and that seems to be working well. Mostly using it to mix protein shakes.
If you drink a lot, fast, it may be worth it to make your own oat milk. It's super easy and for $5 of oats you can be set for weeks to months. It only lasts a few days though, since there's no stabalizers in it.
Chocolate versions of these are super different to their plain counterparts.a friend of mine threw a milk party once and it was a lot of different experiences
Sounds unhealthy. Must add extra sugar too because cocoa would be bitter. Just try different brands for taste and try to figure out how watered down they are from the label to not just have expensive water.
Okay, I noticed one glaring omission in your testing. You tested all these milk alternatives in baking, but what about regular cooking? The primary use of milk in my kitchen is to make creamy sauces that I use in pasta dishes, casseroles, and other stuff like that. I want to know how these alternatives compare to milk in the making of sauces (without having to spend a fortune going out to buy a bunch of different milk alternatives to try it myself). Also, what about shelf life? How long will each one stay good? I hope you'll do a follow up and expand the parameters (though I doubt you will).
In my experience almond milk works the best for making creamy sauces texture wise but you will get a little bit of a toasted almond taste but I find it works
Hey Matt Pat could you please try and make a food theory about how many breadsticks you would have to eat at Olive Garden to actually make the restaurant go out of business
I would have added “Ease of DIY” because Oat is very easy to make, and Cashew is pretty easy. And, in Baking, Coconut is useful when the coconut cream is separated. It’s so thicker While it’s not a “milk”, aquafaba-the juice from cooking chickpeas-might be useful for frothing, since it can be used to make meringue.
17:38 Soy milk is marked as #1 and Oat is marked as #2, but at 17:48, They're reversed. Small mistake, but other than that, great video! I really want to try Cashew milk now. Also, this video being sponsored by Geico really caught me off guard
Oat milk makes the best ice cream, in case anyone was curious. It's smooth and stable and doesn't impart very much oatb taste, even with vanilla or strawberry
Ever since I tasted non-dairy milk, for more than a few months, I was unable to get back to dairy milk because of its taste and the bad stomach feeling afterwards. But I'm unable to decide on just one milk alternative. I used to like Soy-Rice-Drink, but IDK if it was me getting older or them changing the recipe slightly, it didn't taste (only by itself) as good as it used to be.
Coconut milk feels like its own thing. It's great when it's used specifically for the coconut flavor and creaminess, but those unique characteristics mean that it probably doesn't make much sense to substitute for cow milk. Coconut based deserts, drinks, and other sorts of food can be quite tasty, although they can certainly be unhealthy and in some cases loaded with added sugar (which contributes to the taste). Sweet Chinese style coconut milk drinks were one of my favorite things to drink as a kid, although these days I don't drink them as much for health reasons. In terms of baking, I'm somewhat curious how the milks would compare to water and perhaps sugar water as controls. That would help to understand how much the ingredients themselves are actually contributing to the recipe, I feel. My personal favorite milk to drink would be oat milk, but it's definitely problematic as a coffee additive since it takes away from the flavor of the bean itself due to its oaty flavor. For dark roasts though, the oat flavor could also be considered a plus, potentially, depending on what you're going for. It's actually the reason I enjoy drinking it straight. That said, being allergic to soy, peas, and cashews do mean that I haven't really been able to drink that many milk alternatives.
my speciality coffee shop swears by oat. In the UK high end coffee scene it's neck and neck between oatily and minor figures, generally seen as equal but one is superior foam and texture and the other has superior flavour, so it ends up being the barristas preference.
Minor figures is tasty stuff. It's available online in Japan as well, although I often end up drinking it straight before I can use it on anything else.
"For health reasons" being the added sugar, or to avoid the coconut milk itself? Cus coconut milk, unless you're allergic, is one of the best drinks you can have for your health.
What they used in the video is not the same thing as the cooking coconut milk that is used in Asia. There are 2 types of coconut milk. 100% Coconut milk that is meant for cooking and coconut milk drink or beverage which is diluted coconut milk meant for drinking.
@@user-gj1np9rp4d lol! I was thinking the same thing. the coconut milk in the refrigerated case that I put on my cereal is very different from the coconut milk I usually get canned that I cook with
While I drink normal whole milk, there have been times when I've tried milk alternatives. Soy milk actually makes me sick, so I can't consume it. It also never really tasted that good to me as milk, despite me loving soy sauce and tofu. Almond milk...just...no... While it doesn't make me sick, the texture is weird, and the taste makes it worse. It's weird, cause I love almonds, so I figured I'd like almond milk. Oat milk, on the other hand was super delicious and felt like the perfect milk alternative for me, if I ever need to drop regular milk for whatever reason. Ironically, I thought I'd hate oat milk since I'm not a huge fan of oatmeal. I guess I figured it'd be like that, but nope. Turned out to be just right. Anyways, great video.
I'm allergic to soy milk. Soy is a plant that needs careful consideration when put into one's diet. Asian cultures usually ferment it. They know from experience how to make it viable as a food for many people - but soy milk was never something that came out of it, for a reason.
@@svr5423 because Asian cultures don’t really drink milk if I’m remembering right I think Most Asians are lactose because milk is something they didn’t really have in their dishes
@@theblackoutexplorer2658 you are right that milk is rarely consumed in most parts of asia. But would assume that it would make it easier for a drink made from soy beans that doesn't affect lactose intolerant people to become popular - if it were a good idea. In contrast, there is little incentive to replace milk with something else (that has limited applicability) in western cultures.
I would have loved to see the visuals of all the tests. I really appreciate the video, it was very informative. However, I kept wondering what do the cupcakes look like or I would've like to see the foam.
Knowing that so many dairy farms have gone out of business makes me so happy. It only takes a quick Google search to learn about the absolutely horrendous things that happen to those sweet cows and their newborn babies. 😢
My favorites: rice/hazelnut and rice/coconut. The rice adds sweetness and the nuts add creaminess and flavor. Luckily my local supermarket chain has their own house brand of these drinks so they are cheap and readily available. Score! BTW, these two drinks mix great with vodka if you like that kind of thing.
Oat brings an extra layer of taste when paired with coffee, also overall brings a delightful earthiness to some dishes that are on the more sweet side that I've experienced.
Truth be told. Almond milk is like a Kombucha or whatever this drink called. A very narrow specific taste which either makes you say I love it or get it out from me.
to be fair, it really just depends on if you like the taste of almonds so much you would eat them with every meal. i hate almonds, therefore hate almond milk. 🤷
@@first.user_ I don't care for almonds, I can't eat them on their own, only if they're in the same bite as dried fruit. But I think Almond milk and Cashew milk were my favorite of the milk alternatives.
Does it even make a real big difference ? I mean compared to heating your appartment or using an AC or something else that a person does. But here are the numbers of a source I found for Germany. 1 Litre of milk is calculated in Europe with arround 1,2 KG of CO2. That means for me I use about 1 litre per week. it is arround 68 KG CO2 per year. Rice. 0,9 KG CO2 Soy. 0,9 KG CO2 Almond. 0,7 KG CO2 Oat. 0,6 KG CO2
I can't believe how big He has gotten the giant companies like Geico will sponsor him. It's really cool to look back at how much he has grown as a creator.
yea the level of growth he's achieved is great
I was thinking the same thing. The inclusion was a bit jarring to me and I'm still not convinced that it's not a joke, but I love this channel coming so far to be able to quote everyones favorite gecko 😂
Probably Nestle and Monsanto will be next.
Well hes been doing this for a long time hasnt he.. Also hasn't he already been sponsored by GEICO once before..
@@Abhishek-ue6tj twice, in minecraft videos
Another category I would have liked to have seen is how long each milk lasts before it spoils, both refrigerated and non-refrigerated. Milk alternatives might not be as econimic as dairy milk at the time of purchase, but if you're someone who doesnt actually use milk all that often, maybe having it last longer is better in the long run.
That's true!
To quote *doesitgobad* : Shelf-stable soy milk lasts for a few months past the printed date. Refrigerated soy milk, on the other hand, keeps only for about a week past its date. Once you open a bottle or carton, you should finish it within 5 to 10 days, no matter the type.
Definitely lasts longer than dairy milk
Oat milk seems to last 9 months or soon shelf
Another category that would have been pretty important to add imo would be environmental impact during growing and harvest, I've been told almonds take up a lot of water to grow, which is sad because it's the milk alternative that enjoy the most
Mat: "Pea Milk is an unfortunate sounding name"
Also Mat: *"Moo Juice"*
Lol-
What if you call eggs “Ca-caw juicy rocks”
I can't be the only one that heard B. Dylan Holis when I read that, right?
@@clownrock9558 no, you are not the only one
@@gemink7939 agreed
Beef fluid
Oat is my favorite, but it's a little weird with cereal cause it's like having cereal with your cereal lol
XDDD
Same with coconut, the flavor is overpowering.
It's the oat version of ice water
Yeah, when I use oat milk on oatmeal, I think I could just add water…
You want some liquid cereal with your cereal ?
Wow, I can't believe they went to all the trouble to hyper-realistically animate a figment of Mat's imagination. You love to see the work put in 👏
How do you have 404 and only 1 comet mine has more zi should be top comment
when is it?
oh my gosh I saw this comment before they showed up on camera and I was waiting for it and I was so excited!
@@epikjoe4189 in the theorist taste test part
Now they just need to double the budget and do the same for mirror matt xD
New food theory idea: Is breakfast actually the most important meal?
It's a just fake thing lol, used to promote some cereal brand it not true
It’s important for adolescents, but if you’re an adult then you don’t have to eat breakfast if you don’t want to
As someone on an intermittent fasting diet, and can't eat until noon; and didn't eat breakfast as a teenager; I doubt it.
Actually that was one of the things that came up when I was looking at starting interment fasting. From a weight loss perspective, it doesn't seem to matter when you eat your food, either as one or two big meals or six small meals throughout the day, only matters how much you're eating throughout the day.
However, there are some advantages of restricting the time window of when you can eat. It improves insulin sensitivity, which can help decrease your risk of type 2 diabetes. You're also training your body not to eat during certain times so your body stops producing those hunger hormones when you are fast. Granted it does take about a month for your body to adjust, and it can be difficult those first few weeks.
Depends on what it's supposed to be important for.
Physical fitness?
Nutritional value?
Mental wellbeing?
Companies producing/selling cereal?
this is actually such a cool idea hype this up
Personally, I don’t like coconut milk very much, but it is the best for ice cream and whipped cream in my experience.
I agree, I also like it in my smoothies.
In Southeast Asia people use coconut milk in cooking. Not for drinking.
@@himuka98 who the heck even drinks coconut milk?
@@thewatcher4044 I do. It is not liked by many because of the flavor and weird creaminess
@@himuka98 Here in Brazil as well. I didn't even know you could drink coconut milk, my mother always told me not to. But makes sense since it's too expensive for drinking.
As someone who is lactose intolerant this has been very helpful. I don't drink any kind of milk, that being cows milk or any other kind, just straight up. Usually I only have milk with cereal and it's usually almond milk because I personally like it and I have no objections for buying it.
i am lactose intolerant too but nothing beats the good ol moo juice
Same here. Well, I mean for the most part. I love dairy milk, but the idea of us humans drinking. It has kind of started to seem bizarre to me lmao the more I think about it. Regardless, though I love dairy byproducts like cheese and cream cheese. It’s harder to find those without lactose :(
As a fellow lactose intolerant, I can say with certainty, that I do not care and will chug the moo juice any day of the week.
I drink and use lactaid milk, fairlife, and almond milk
the best option to me has been lactose free milk which is just cow milk(moo juice) with lactose removed. It tastes exactly the same and the texture is also very similar without any of the bloating. It’s honestly been kinda life changing
As someone who is both lactose intolerant and allergic to both soy and almonds, I can rest easy now knowing I've been making the best choice for myself all along with my oat milk purchases
oat milk #1 for me 😍
You are not allergic to soy
@@jojomojo508 what makes you say that?
thats such a rough combo, so many dairy-free things have soy in them
@@jojomojo508
You know people can be allergic to pretty much everything right? Also who are you to try to say what they are or are not allergic to when they are telling you others wise?
An important reason that a lot of people even choose to drink non dairy milk is it's environmental impact, which from what I've read Oat is the best and rice and almond are the worst due to how much water rice and almonds need to grow
Rice is a staple food and 90% of it is grown and consumed in Asia and nearly third of it is being wasted. We can't change the amount of rice being grown, but we can use it in as many ways as possible to avoid that wastage
Milk harvesting literally has a minuscule environmental impact. Plants need way more water than a cow does
@@narcyz2134 we could just make sake /Soju/白酒 out of the rice
@@narcyz2134 You can also make rice flour, rice porridge, amazake etc. The possibilities are endless 😅😅
that stat is actually misleading, because it includes rain water to the plants.
Bruh this editing, this is literally insane, the amount of work that goes into editing, researching, and writing on these episodes is insane, Kutos to yall
Sorry to be that guy but kudos
@@zeezus890 At least you were polite unlike some folks
I settled on oat milk as my favorite due to the good taste but more so because it has one of the lowest environmental impacts. I don’t need milk to fill nutritional gaps so that matters more to me. Thanks for the thorough research! 🙌🏻
I double up with mine I use chocolate oat milk in my oatmeal or oats overnight and it's so good
This entirely. Oat milk requires the least amount of water to produce out of all the alternative milks. And if you live in an area that grows grain, it's very local and requires minimal transportation.
The flavour, as seen in this video and in my opinion, is the most universally usable. I drink dairy alternatives by choice, and I don't go out of my way to convince others, but I hear the same story: "they all taste awful" I suggest oat milk and they come back saying it's great. I find it's the easiest one for dairy drinkers to transition to. Plus in my area, the oat milk is the same price as all the other alternatives.
Yeah, and nutritional value of milk isn't a big deal if you're just using small amounts for cooking or tea's
@@raviere22 yeah I’ve found a lot of people actually prefer oat milk as to dairy
@@raviere22 are you a vegan?
I would love to see a video discussing “lactose free” milk, dairy milks that take the lactose out of their products.
I second this!! I drink it everyday, but idk how good it is 😅
Here's an interesting piece of information I know. "Raw milk", that is unprocessed milk straight from the animal, don't cause discomfort for lactose intolerant people. If you're lactose intolerant, you can drink it no problem. The reason the milk you buy in stores is problematic has to do with the pasteurization process.
@@ferretzim8694 That is absolutely false. It is a bogus claim made by companies that sell raw milk and various "natural medicine" sites, but is demonstrably false. Studies by both the FDA and Stanford University of Medicine have found that there is literally no difference between raw milk and pasteurized milk when it comes to the impact they have on people with lactose intolerance, as they contain the same amount of lactose and the bacteria present in the raw milk do not aid in breaking it down in any meaningful way. At best, the claims made by raw milk sellers are backed by anecdotal claims by customers that either believed themselves to be lactose intolerant even though they aren't, or people that are lactose intolerant but are experiencing a placebo effect due to the claims made by the raw milk sellers.
Please stop spreading misinformation. It can legitimately cause harm.
@@ferretzim8694 fascinating, any source or reference on this?
@@ferretzim8694 id have to see some source on that to believe it. It just doesn’t make sense to me
In parts of Asia, soy milk is actually cheaper than cow milk. It also tastes *much* richer and stronger than what you get in American grocery stores, which have been specifically processed to remove the "bean" taste.
Makes sense, lots of people in Asia are lactose intolerant, so milk must be less widespread and more expensive.
I come from Pakistan and that is true, in the shops, almost none sell cow milk
But the bean taste is the best part. It's quite hard to find traditional soy milk in the states.
However, Soy is also Terrible for men, since it contains phyto-estrogen, such as the burgers from McDonalds.
@@JamesLyda dude, soy-boy propaganda isn’t really something to be including in a more scientific setting. Go be an alpha male in the corner, and let us drink soy. I don’t even drink soy and I’m mad.
the face reveal of ash feels like when a book gets turned into a movie and the characters aren't how you pictured lol
Facts
Really? They look exactly how I thought they would 😅
I’m certain that she’s a robot matpat created to hide the fact that she’s a figment of his imagination
Ash had thick rimmed glasses and a baseball cap in my mind
@@eugeneadams7071 i thought they had glasses too!
I would probably call pea milk 🥛"round green pebble milk"😆
Or vegetable milk.
You can really taste the pea-ness
@@starkravinglad8099😂😂😂
@@starkravinglad8099 the pea-ness of the pea milk makes it so creamy
@@Tetracontakaitetragonstop it
I think MatPat is the only UA-camr that can run 4 channels and upload amazing content while uploading weekly.Keep up the amazing content MatPat!(with his team by he side helping make a amazing video)
Ok dont read my name,😑.
4 actually, don’t forget gt live where he plays games live
this comment is riddled with bots
well he's far from working alone, he got a full time team working on these videos
Let's remember he has a whole team working with him! Let's not forget the amount of work and input they're putting :^)
my niece is lactose intolerance, so I've been experiencing with cooking and baking with different milks, and let me tell you there is more then just minor differences. texture, density, bake time, flavor changes.
it all makes a huge difference. I don't like cooking with almond milk as the almond flavor will come through real strong. oat is great for baking cookies and cakes. coconut milk is fun for coconut flavored things, but using it as a stock for soups and curry is the way to go.
if you want to make Alfredo sauce, I found the best is to use the Lactose free milk. it's real milk just the Lactae removed and it works so good for Mac n cheese and Alfredo. pair it with vegan parm and you are set
#oatisgoat
I love homemade oatmilk for my alfredo sauce. I wasnsuper delighted at how creamy it turned out. I like to blend my own oats for milk because it works out to be cheaper overall and I only make the am of oat juice that I need lol
Thanks for the advice.
I have noticed rice milk produces very similar texture but a lighter sweeter taste so if you like that I reccomend it especially in baking. same with rice flour. my friend is gluten free and the biggest difference between regular flour and brown rice flouur is it's grainier and holds moisture better so the combination of it with rice or regular milk makes really good cakes
I’m lactose intolerant and love baking & cooking and i just always use lactose free. Unless it say butter milk & idk a good alternative but it doesn’t effect me really so might not have the find one. The only option of these in the video i use to drink is almond since the rest is either bad taste or weird texture. Especially soy & oat. And flavored milk besides chocolate 😡😡
There is an important test missing that was mentioned early in the video: How well each milk pairs with cereal. My favourite of all of these for drinking is oat milk, but in my experience it is terrible for cereal - it just does not absorb well.
I eat a lot of granolas and porridge and hate the taste of cow milk. I love my oat milk because it blends in but does add more flavour and sweetness. I don't like most "desert for breakfast" cereals as I like to call them.
Milk made out of cereal does not mix well with cereal. Interesting.
Chobani Oat is the most amazing I’ve seen!! I eat cereal on an almost daily basis and when I started getting sick drinking cow milk I was scared to try alts bc of how they pair with cereal. I’ve tried three different brands of oat milk and chobani oat is the best in my personal experience. If you don’t mind the taste of Pea milk Thts okay too. But I hate the way it tastes.
I have had the same experience, the more creamy milk alternatives are worse for cereal than the lighter ones, like rice milk
Almond milk works great with cereal
I'm honestly surprised there wasn't even a comment on how long these alternatives last. I get oat milk SPECIFICALLY because of how much longer it lasts than dairy milk does. I cant finish a half gallon by myself of normal milk but i can with oat milk because where I'm at the best by date is ~3x longer.
That makes sense
Yeah. Milk says "once opened, consume within 3 days". There's no way the four of us can consume such a big bottle that fast. We probably could if we drank it rather than just using it in our cereal and on our tea, but we don't.
Meanwhile, Oatly milk says "once opened, consume within 5 days." Way longer. Plus, before you open it, Oatly milk can last months.
@@me-myself-i787wait.. 5 days?!
Of everything I was expecting to see in this video, an Ash face reveal was definitely not one of them! But I'm so happy to know that they now feel comfortable enough with the Theorist crew and fans to decide to show themselves on camera! I now really hope that we'll get to hear some Witty Banter about this experience on the next GTLive!
I just hope we get to see Mirror Matt soon!
+1
So happy for them!
Amogus
@@MysticaI_Orb betwixt y’all you mean
You forgot environmental impact, like how much land and water is needed to grow, how long and hard to grow etc, but make it simple oat is probably the best based on enviromental
Yeah, I saw an article about that topic once. Oat and soy were the top two, IIRC. All plant-based milks did far better on environmental measures than cow milk.
I can't have oat milk though because it gives me reflux so I'll probably have no milk at all.
@@kane2742 yes the plowed fields requiring thousands of gallons of fuel, fertilizer and pesticides with excessive water usage are far better than pastures which arnt able to support crop farming (like half the country’s non mountainous land) along with the fact that unlike people cows can eat the whole plant which gives us access to far more of the energy each acre of crops yield.
Fun fact the farming operations in California use 80% of the water used by the entire state. Not to mention the fertilizer and pesticide runoff and the algae blooms those cause along with lasting effects on the environment.
Very interesting question but it's hard to find where to even start with this. As someone said below, farms need lots of water and pesticides. But at the same time, cows do need feed and that also affects the environment. Then there's the debate whether it's better to farm food or raise animals and exploit them, whether farming is good because of how it'll affect the land and air, etc. Really interesting topic.
@@walter3934 cows are able to live their entire life on pastures eating grass and while it’s not always feasible to keep them on pasture year round especially in colder climates it still offsets feed requirements but beyond that cattle and other ruminant mammals can extract energy from farming waste we can’t eat such as plant stalks or fruits/veggies that didn’t make it past quality control due to pest damage or other things.
The important thing to note here is that half the land in America isn’t suitable for sustainably farming crops but has no issues growing grass which you can then just cut and put in storage bunkers where it’s turned into silage which can make up the bulk of what cattle eat. That’s what a lot of dairy farmers do already.
Factory farming of animals is obviously worse for the animal but it’s hard to say if it’s significantly worse for the environment as yes now you require more feed to support your operation but you take up significantly less space and you get other offsets like tones of manure which can be used as a natural fertilizer or to produce energy. Personally I think that even if it ends up being better for the environment factory farming has moral issues that can’t be overcome chief among them being the animal deserves a decent life without the excessive suffering that comes with being locked up in a pen for its entire life.
There really isn’t an easy answer here as for what’s best for humans or the planet and no matter your views on eating meat short of foraging for berries it’s impossible to eat without the death of millions of animals be it cattle on ranches or rodents and birds killed by plows and pesticides.
You know you made it when Geico is your sponsor lol
I've typically used coconut milk for thai and other southeast-asian dishes - its flavor (while not like milk at all) typically suites that flavor profile quite well. It might not serve as a milk ALTERNATIVE, but it does function just fine when used in the right context.
What they used in the video is not the same thing as the cooking coconut milk that is used in Asia. There are 2 types of coconut milk. 100% Coconut milk that is meant for cooking and coconut milk drink or beverage which is diluted coconut milk so that you can drink it.
I only buy unsweetened Silk brand coconut milk🥛to drink as it doesn't taste like water. It has a rich delicious flavor and never gets lumpy out of the carton.
I'm lactose intolerant, and I'll blankly state, Soy is my GO TO, for everything, 'cause its so much more like milk
I even realized that Lactose was my problem, because I went over to Soy, for the taste, and stopped having pains
I also think that it is very nice to drink as "milk". But for me without a little bit of sugar it tastes much worse than milk ^^'
As a fellow lactose intolerant. I ABSOLUTELY DESPISE ALL NON DAIRY MILK OPTIONS. THEY ALL TASTE TERRIBLE!
@Shorts From The Pit hahh don't have to :P I feel like it enhances the flavor of everything else its mixed with :P so I would actually rather have soy, which is nice when I need it XD
I’ve heard that soy milk affects testosterone production so it could have negative side effects especially for men
I’m milking this soy thing
Remember everyone, if geico sponsors your channel you know your doing well.
I was personally taken aback by the sponsor, genuinely thought it was a honey sponsor until the mention geico\
It feels like boomers are watching this channel, but it's millennials who are supposed to be their clients now, feels weird that millennials are supposed to be the super consumers now.
Hot Ones here we come!
Plenty of people have the numbers this channel does but with more "risky" content. So it's less about doing well and more about being a safe option for advertising.
honestly i didnt really know what geico what until matpat was being sponsored by them. not american lol
4:06 has nobody ever realized how Gallade and Gardevior actually make more “children“
Matpat is just so obsessed with finding data his Dad pat form has truly come out.
@YоuTubе 🅥 fake.
Who are you that is so high in the ways of IQ
@YоuTubе 🅥 Self promotion booo send him to prison
Lol 😂
It’s official. Matt has three forms:
- MatPat
- CrazyPat (from his FNaF theories)
- and DadPat
That's not true, if he was a fully formed Dad Pat he wouldn't have returned with the milk
For me, nothing beats the taste of freshly made soy milk. Having fresh soy milk for the first time, especially if you've only had the supermarket stuff in the past, is like having some really good, freshly made coffee for the first time after only having tried bad instant coffee. The taste is indescribably good.
How do you make yours? For some reason I’m not allergic to soy, but I am allergic to all soy milk found at the store. I think it could be a preservative issue since I do have a lot of allergies but soy itself is not one of them. I think making soy milk at home might be fun to try!
@@honeybloom8533 I make soy milk every week and it’s super easy! I got a soy milk maker years ago from Amazon. All I do is soak 1 cup of dried soybeans overnight in some water, then the next morning I drain them, put them in the maker, fill with water to the line, push the button, and in less than an hour I have fresh, piping hot soy milk! :) It’s dirt cheap, tastes amazing, has no preservatives, and lasts about a week in a bottle or jar in the fridge! Not that it ever sits around that long before I drink it all. 😊
Just be sure to clean it properly 💯💯
As a person allergic to dairy, this was interesting. I had no idea there was cashew or pea milk. Never saw them here. Might be something to test. I guess they haven't gotten popular or big enough to get put in the grocery stores in smaller towns.
And NO not lactose intolerant... allergic, as in my tongue and throat burns, my lips get puffy and I have some difficulty breathing. The number of times I tried to ask if a dish had dairy getting told 'it's just a tummy hurt, they make pills for that' when trying to get something while I'm out is astounding.
I was allergic to dairy, yes was… I somehow grew out of it, growing up I always had the same problem as you with people thinking I meant intolerance and it was the most annoying thing ever, we always drank rice milk at my house and it wasn’t that bad, I actually prefer the taste of it to normal milk, what did you have growing up or what do you have now?
Back when I was in school, there was a boy in my class who was severely allergic to dairy. We all had to be super careful cause even getting a little bit of traces on him would make him go into allergic shock. Eating a cookie with milk in it could've killed him. Didn't know there was also less severe versions of dairy allergy like yours though.
Same, everyone assumes allergic only means intolerant. I've been to the ER 4 or 5 times now, I think I'd know if I were only lactose intolerant.
I too am allergic to milk. My lips swell up and the roof of my mouth gets all itchy and tender like it's also swollen but not at the same time.
We actually use pea milk for the coffee at my job. You can store it for long times in room temperature and even though it doesn't foam as well it foams good enough.
Is it milk protein allergy? Dairy allergy is such a bad term that is sometimes used for it, so confusing. Most people i know that have it says milk protein allergy since it makes it easier to understand.
I hate all kinds of milk but i still drink it cause its has fats, i read the nutritional label on the back occasionally and it always bothered me how much grams of cholestorol it had, now that i drink cashew milk i hate the taste of milk even more, thank you matpat
You mean saturated fats, not cholesterol.
but isn't it the healthy sat fats?\
When it comes to cost, dairy milk is heavily subsidized. If almond or soy milk was subsidized just as much, they'd probably be around the same cost or cheaper than what dairy is currently
Yep. If it wasn't for government subsidies, stuff like meat and dairy would be WAY more expensive than it is now.
@@tecnapurin can't be more than double the price
Soy is enormously subsidized. Like to ridiculous degrees.
However they're just as bad for the environment and take up more land so that would probably never happen.
Before you tell me it's not bad for the environment allow me to explain. The amount of trees needed to grow enough to supply the country, takes up so much water that is insane, and since they are primarily grown in California this is an issue. Add that to the over stress it puts on the bee population and you've got even bigger issues. Soy is also a massive water hog, and both take more acreage than any dairy farm every thought of needing.
@@dunhillsupramk3 it was 4-6 $ per gallon, but that was a long time ago, not in the dairy bus anymore.
SO, I'm curious how these would stack up against a lactose-free dairy milk like Lactaid. That has been my go to since becoming more lactose intolerant, and I gotta say, for the milk taste alone, it beats all the other alternatives I've tried.
Well Lactaid isn’t a milk alternative. It’s just milk.
this is what we give my 15-month-old son. He can still get whole milk, without the issue of lactose, and I'm uncomfortable giving him so much soy because of the high estrogen amounts.
@@chloe5555 Now that's a responsible parent
Huh... I guess we never had to look past dairy milk after all.
If anyone is up for it, I recommend watching a video on UA-cam called "Dairy is Scary" by Erin Janus. It's only 5 minutes long and it might give some info about dairy. Wishing everyone agreat day
The amount of research that is put to make these videos is just amazing to me
@YоuTubе 🅥 What even was that?
@@beaweeng282 its a bot, ignore it
Finding this channel was a epiphany to me, love you energy, love the content! Keep it up Mat(e)
I want to thank Team Theorist. I've been using almond milk for years, but thanks to this vid, I tried soy milk and it is SO much better. I only used almond to cook, but I can actually drink soy.
Something just to keep in mind is that kids shouldn’t drink soy milk because it gives a lot of estrogen and can cause hormone imbalances
Tiny tip for soy: buy your soy milk from Asian grocers if you're not already doing that. Trust me, you will not regret it
@@adlirez As a person who has an Asian room mate who buys these. I 100% agree
Agreed
The number 3 spot is not bad! For the longest time before I was drinking soy milk. Then years on down the line when almond milk became more readily available I started using it for my breakfast shakes, frappes etc. Still drink regular milk on occasion and prefer using it for baking/cooking.
It's been a long time since I've last drank soy milk. But it's still really good in my book. Especially Silk's soy eggnog come the holidays! Which I really miss because for some reason my Wal-Mart doesn't carry it anymore for years now 😭!
For price, milk likely has a foot up because a LOT of grocery stores will sell milk for a loss to bring customers in to shop. Milk wars have occurred, where places like Wal-mart will drop their milk prices to bring in customers. A lot of people will shop where milk is cheapest, especially during the school season where lots of cereal is eaten. Milk alternatives are seldom, if ever, sold at a loss. Next time you walk into wal-mart, ask the dairy clerk to scan a jug of milk and see how much of a loss that jug is selling for. I htink it was somewhere around 30% when I last worked there. This is also why convenient stores sell milk for almost double the price, but alternatives are around the same price. They can not afford the several dollars loss on the sale.
I mean making dairy milk is just way easier than any plant milk. So of course it gonna be cheaper.
@@dieptrieu6564 good job ignoring the entire comment
@@dieptrieu6564 The only part harder about making plant milk is the conversion of raw material into milk. For cow milk, you have to take care of cattle, feed them (and grow that food), and milk each cow individually. The only other reason cow milk is cheaper is due to the economics of scale since dairy is a large established industry compared to alternative milks.
@@dieptrieu6564 well "easy" as in there's less human involvement, sure; but I'd argue raising and milking cattle while also keeping them all producing milk is pretty difficult and expensive. it's cheaper in stores bc of what OP has stated from their experience with supermarkets, and also because the industry has been around way longer and has had the time and resources to find cost effective work arounds (which often involves further abuse and exploitation of the animals & employees) like MatPat mentioned with soy & oat milk being cheaper than pea milk
or cuz milk alternatives are just over priced like most of these alternative stuff that are not great nutriently. Just buy normal milk, just looking at this video should be enough to show that normal milk is cheaper and healther.
Food theory is my comfort channel, whenever I'm having a bad day I watch these videos, and they're just so ridiculous I cant help but laugh
And the best part is he learns ya somethin at the same time.
I do that too and play it at work if need be because yeah, it helps me mood ✨🙌✨👍💗❤️✨🙌
@YоuTubе 🅥 stop it
@YоuTubе 🅥 shut up we didn’t ask
Same
My kids and I love using almond milk for our smoothies specifically BECAUSE it doesn't froth well lol we hate the foamy layer on top after we blend regular milk. Also, I can usually find almond milk on a good sale or rebate! I haven't tried oatmilk yet and it's been decades since I've had soymilk, so maybe we'll give those a go soon 😊 thanks for the awesome video, great research guys!
This makes me respect even more for my dad and his ongoing search for the best milk over the past 13 years ❤
@@ramonandrajo6348 spam
I buy mine from a farm down the road.. fresh from the tank, sometimes it's still warm. It's rich and creamy and goes good a a supplement for my diet and workout routine. 👍
Another factor you didn’t consider: environmental impact. From what I’ve heard almond milk is horrible due to how much water is needed. Cow milk also has a lot of overhead & resources. I wonder what the best pick is in that regard. Give Chidi an option so he doesn’t go to the bad place ;)
Yeah honestly surprised froth was up there but not environmental impact. I’m guessing that would have taken too much time as that would be material for a video itself.
Thanks for this... Both chidi and environmental impact needed to be mentioned
Dairy farmers have been failing as he said so while almond milk takes more water than other alternatives it is nowhere near the amount of water animal milk uses.
The cows need to drink water we all know that but one overlooked factor is the plants the animal is eating. If your dairy cows are grass fed which less than 5% are than this would still be an issue since it’s more convenient to grow your own grass as a farmer than pick up surrounding grass.
Don’t take my word on that 5% but I’m talking about dairy cows I know cows raised for meat alone have 10% be grass fed.
While almond requires more water in its production than other milk alternatives, it uses WAY less water than the production of cow milk.
I’m pretty sure it’s oat milk is best regarding water usage
“Hello everyone, my name is Ash. I have a face, that’s crazy.”
I love them.
it would be interesting to know wich of them is the most "environment frienly", because i had been told that soy needs a lot of land and clean water to produce than perhaps, oat
Almond and soy are both extremely wasteful when it comes to resources. They use loads of land and water.
I kinda of remember him making a video about that topic as well. Maybe you would find it if you go through his videos.
I have heard otherwise from soy milk but I will be researching for it ;) At the end of the day dairy milk is the environentally worst if we were to compare it and aslong as you pick a milk alternative it would be better off
@@Chugalg
Isn't soy a legume, though? I thought those were supposed to be really good for farmland, in terms of not wearing the land out.
I have seen some other video from ASAP science saying that Oat milk would the most environmentally friendly.. I'm sure a lot has changed by now, but it can still be a good source of info
Here's the link to the video: ua-cam.com/video/8ZiD2W8vSXE/v-deo.html
That song that started playing at 14:38…I can never pay attention to what he’s saying once that banger comes on
Same
What is it's name? I can't find it
Now that we know Ash isn't just a figment of MatPat's imagination, we need a Mirror Matt reveal lol
I feel like if Mirror Matt WANTED to be on camera, he would have been by now.
13:26 as someone who works in the agronomy industry, I can also tell you that soy milk is going to be cheap because a lot of soy is produced. I mean a lot of soy. Not only does soy have a lot of applications, it's also a good companion crop to re- enrich the soil for growing corn so you have a lot of farmers alternating between soybeans and corn. We end up making a lot more soy than the market would really call for as part of corn production which has a ton of applications. Remember soy and corn are used for things other than food. With corn, you have ethanol. With soy, you have biodiesel. Also a ton of animal feed and silage is made from soy So yeah, soybeans are easy to grow, grown in abundance and really maximized through bioscience so it does not surprise me at all that soy milk is cheap.
Did anyone else notice how, “the definitive guide to the best milk alternatives on the market,” (at 17:48) put oat milk in first place?
I thought that was an odd error.
I was about to comment the same!
I was looking for this comment. Like did anyone else catch that?
yeah
I believe that's because oat milk is by far the best in terms of water usage and other environmental factors, making ut the most sustainable
@@angiematas Yeah, and also locally produced
While I don't disagree with this analysis, isn't cow's milk heavily subsidized too? Also, for water usage (to make a gallon of milk) I think pea/oat are the best, which is important for future water conservation and even overall environmental impact.
Oat milk has by far the lowest water and land usage of any of the plant milks, which easily pushes it into first place in my opinion.
@@Disharm0ny That's my major consideration for milk alternatives as well. I really liked the taste of oat milk, but the one time I bought a carton of it, it had a noticeable grittiness to it, like the fibre hadn't been properly filtered out.
@@Levian-Durai try a different brand maybe, i have no issues with Planet Oat, i do get the extra creamy one though.
@@Disharm0ny That's a great point, though possibly the pea milks have the better protein to water usage ratio, I wonder if someone has done an analysis
yeah, I wish they had actually cover that in this video. Like, my personal favorite non-dairy milk is almond, but I don't really drink it anymore because so much water is wasted when actually even growing the almonds themselves...
The info I really want (especially when comparing prices) is how long the milk will last in the fridge after opening. I switched from dairy to oat milk because dairy would always go bad before I can use it. Oat, on the other hand, will last in the fridge for almost double the amount of time as dairy. This makes it a lot less expensive overall because I don't have to pour half of the tub out and buy a new one every time I decide to bake a cake on a whim
Have you tried changing your eating habits or maybe buying smaller containers?
@@TharzZzDunN some people just dont use enough milk, and/or live by themselves. I could go out and buy a single quart of milk and it will absolutely go bad before i use it all, its just too much milk for how short the shelf life is after you open it. If you dont religiously eat cereal or live with multiple people then you can easily struggle to use up milk before it goes bad.
in an ideal world an opened jug of milk would last an entire month before it sours, this is not an ideal world.
@@Draganot1 or just drink milk
@@Draganot1 it's such a pain. I know I would go between 2 and 4 pints since some weeks I used up the 4 pints and sometimes I wouldn't finish the 2 pints. Getting rid of milk is rid6
Just drink it for a few meals a week
As a person who has not been able to drink milk for a LONG time now due to discovering I have eoe (eosinophilic esophagitis) which makes my throat more sensitive to allergies (the eosinophilic part), this is pretty accurate depiction of fake milk.
I would have liked a category for 'most environmentally friendly'
Almonds need a lot of water for example but I'm sure theres more differences
This^^^
Yes!!!
yes
Too bad soy milk contains estrogen to the point of being unhealthy; oat milk and cashew milk are hands down the best substitutes.
@@ramonandrajo6348 too much of anything can be unhealthy
I'm drinking and baking with plant-based milks since I'm a little child. Because my mom lives vegan, and yeah, even now my dad and I only use soy, rice and oat milks and it is just as good for baking, or making a coffee in my dad's case.
Nice seeing this beeg research and all of ma favorite YT team test it. Very cool video.
Actually, my dad's friend only likes cow milk so sometimes we have that at home, but we always get rid of it as fast as we can before it spoils. xD
Soy isn't healthy. Messes with hormones. I'd avoid it if I where anything other than a post menopausal women.... Especially if you've been living off of it for years like that... Just some friendly advice.
I've noticed that my almond milk can last WAY longer than my family's 2%
when i was 8 years old it was discovered that i was allergic to milk proteins, so i've been consuming non-dairy milk and products for the past two decades. the non-dairy market has changed A LOT since then
@@GeeklingNo1 months you can buy stockpiles of the stuff plus mine doesn't really have much of a taste so it feels like a good alternative
@@newbienoobframebyframe4108 I've been drinking it rarely compared to oak and rice. And I didn't had it in like 5 years.
Never heard of that hormone thing tho
First of all, Love the video, love pretty much all the videos from your channels
But I did want to point out your chart from ~ 17:49 swapped the soy milk and oat milk's places
Making oat take first over soy, differing from what was said in the video
And again, Love your stuff, hope all of Team Theorist is doing great=D
I was just about to comment the same thing, you beat me to it!
Same, it really bugged me to see the results being swapped so I was about to comment but saw this, I hope they fix it, gonna provide mom with soy milk now because of her heart problems or almond if she wants to cut some cals.
My family, a very dairy intolderant family, has 2-3 cartons of milk open at a time- almond for cooking, soy for frothing, and rice (sometimes oat) for cereal
as another dairy free family, we also have varieties, usually oat and soya. we never get rice milk in as we have a child and its not suitable for under 5yo, so not worth it for us atm
Ash was a figment of mats imagination, these theories have all been a cover for him being able to create them so he can prove people wrong
Social identity theory
I think Ash just conjured up a physical form
Mat has truly figured out how to use AI to make his own imaginary people become real… honestly quite scary…
MatPat created a friend. Stanley must've been a good teacher!
wait there's actual subtitles, why is nobody surprised by this
I know this has nothing to do with milk but I adore Ash’s whole look! They are iconic honestly, also their mushroom earrings are so cute!! :D
same! ash looks lovely
simp
Crazy seeing Ash in person but also super exciting!
They've quickly become a favourite team member of mine since they joined and I really hope we get to see more of them 💜
Edited for pronouns
they use they/them pronouns.
@@Lisa-Marie-xw6ek i believe theyve said they go by they/she ? something i heard but not entirely sure since matt usually says she on gtlive and mirror matt mainly uses they
@@thepurpleones Yeah, Ash confirmed her pronouns were She/They on Reddit. (Maybe on Twitter to, but I know for a fact on Reddit.)
I knew it when I saw them I just new that ash was enby but still wasn’t completely sure.
@@thepurpleones Thanks, I didn't know.
I recently developed lactose intolerance (or strengthening based on past theory’s) so thank you for making this video
Me too.... I have been trying milk alternatives for 2months now, trying to find one that tastes better because I love milk, I atleast had a cup daily my entire life
I don't care how convenient of a analogue it is, using Gardevoir as a "female plant" instantly made me pause the video and write this comment while my brain hurts
GARDEVOIR ISN'T EVEN A GRASS TYPE
ffs, at least use Tsareena
lol. Same. The perils of being an adult who grew up with Pokemon. Instant reaction: "Really Matpat? After all the Pokemon research, you Ok'd a psychic fairy as a 'plant' because it has green hair?"
I was instantly triggered, why not Vileplume or something? No, freaking Gardevoire.
@@m2pt5 I was thinking Lilligant but Tsareena would work too
IT'S A TRAP! ONE CREWMATE IS A IMPOSTER!
I’ve had a lot of soy milk over the years because my mom had to go gluten and dairy free due to food sensitivities, but I think cashew milk has one of the best tastes and textures. I’ve tried pretty much all of these and I would say that soy is a good whole milk alternative, but it’s best to have it in moderation as it gets very heavy very fast. Cashew milk is one of the few that I’ve never had any problems with, I hope they start putting it in more stores soon.
It's the only one thick and tasteless enough that I like using it for instant pasta like KD or sidekicks.
I agree with you.
Nah not the soy milk 😭😭😭
Since I am Lactose intolerant, I had to find a cheap af alternative to the 'moo juice'. I chose Soy overall because of its cheap pricing- but now I know that it has all this great facts about it I feel more confident about my choice :D I really rooted for Soy Milk this episode and so glad it came on top 💪😏
moo juice lol
I alsorooted for soy
@@cga7701 Yeah same, idk why but something about Soy milk just stuck out to me and I rooted for it despite not only never trying it but never trying any milk alternatives, it's kinda like how so many Jedi betrayed the order to follow Revan into the Mandalorian wars despite Revan going completely against the order and it's code
Me too but soy milk gives me a lot of gas? I knew it would be the best buy i was curious to see what would be second best.
Look into A2 milk. Many, many people who felt they were lactose-intolerant have reported being able to drink A2 milk and not experience the same problems.
fun fact! i am actually allergic to casein. as a toddler i would drink about a gallon of milk a day and around 8 years old i developed really intense stomach pain. i was tested for celiac, lactose intolerance and many other things all coming back negative. i was diagnosed with stomach migraines after 5 years of doctors visits. didn’t find out until i was 15 that it was casein causing the problem
Hemp milk is a good source of Omega 3 protein.
Hemp is Low Water Use--
especially in cooler rainy areas.
Hemp grows in many climates,
soil/mix/mediums, marginal land,
greenhouse and/or hydroponic
hemp grows easily from any combination of processes
of at least 1 step: seed, transplant, cutting & clone.
I tried it once but it tasted bad and didn't foam. Maybe best to keep it as a protein extract product and fibre crop, but each to their own. As long as it's not an animal's milk, it's a good milk.
Hemp is fire
you mean cannabis?
Hemp destroys the soil that it's grown in by sucking all of the nutrients out of it. While it might be fine in small amounts, growing at large scale is not ideal.
@@tohstygohstygal Hemp does the opposite of your claim. It improves soil quality. That’s why farmers often plant hemp in their soil in preparation for a different crop to be planted. Even if it didn’t work this way we could grow it in hydroponic solutions, rendering soil obsolete.
I love oatmilk in coffee. It has a really nice oaty flavor that pairs well with a lot of different kinds of coffees and the frothability don't hurt either.
Agreed, I don't like non-dairy milks on their own because they taste "off" to me, but I prefer oatmilk over milk in coffee.
Oat and ginger tea pair great as it tastes like ginger bread
I like oat milk in my tea and I think it tastes way better than other milk alternatives
8:38 I was really expecting us looking into MatPats brain to see Ash’s face that he made up
No coconut milk? Sure, I don't drink it, but the applications it has in cooking and baking have more benefit to flavor than ordinary milk
I wish environmental impact was also discussed, seeing as that is an important factor for a lot of people who switch over to plant-based milks. Additionally, delving into that side of things would have given more context for the price comparison - right now there are a lot of subsidies that dairy producers can take advantage of but that is not the case for the plant-based alternatives. I would really love to watch a video exploring these topics in relation to more environmentally sustainable food :)
^^ this, I should do my research on all this, but I'd also really like a food theory on it.
This would immediately tank Almond to near bottom. The water impact alone, especially growing them in Cali is a straight up crime. But nuts in general I don't think would score well here. I can't imagine it will help coconut move up much, though.
I would also like to see the price adjusted for without subsidies, in the interest of fairness.
71% of global emissions are caused by 100 companies
Oat is the least water intensive of the bunch if you are going for environmental impact.
If environmental impact was a factor almond milk would have lost, requiring 400+ gallons per pound to produce.
I’m Irish and statistically I’m not lactose intolerant but even I feel its weird how much milk as a stand alone product is pushed. It seems more like an ingredient. It would be like pushing flour as an important part of your breakfast.
Too bad soy milk contains estrogen to the point of being unhealthy; oat milk and cashew milk are hands down the best substitutes.
The estrogen thing is actually false by the way
I mean, it is, given that some foods eaten for breakfast use flour.
Nah hemp milk is. Because the water used to grow it is way less. And hemp also has omegas.
Because milk tastes good and raw flour does not
For me oatmilk’s taste sets it so high above everyone else its ability to froth is why it is the best milk for coffee
Oat milk is good and all, but... Buckwheat milk. I don't know if US and other western countries even consider buckwheat food like we are. The taste of "milk" is much more unique and cooler imo.
I tried many types of milk as a coffee additive. Currently almond, oat and soy milks are out due to their strong flavor taking over the coffee's presense. Diluted coconut milks are the best, but still not on-par with cow milk.
Alright, so now we know the best non-milk milk. Now we need a part 2 though, discussing which "regular" milk is the best! Will it be a slam dunk for the good old cows are will alternatives like goat milk actually be able to compare?
Sheeps milk is the best hands down, shame its so hard to get your hands on it commercially
I've never had goat or sheep's milk, but I goat and sheep cheese is really good.
Goat's milk is really great as a skincare ingredient, I'm not sure how it works but it works so well. xD
17:49 Y’all made an editing mistake here. Oat milk is listed as the winner & soy is listed as #2.
I'm so glad that soymilk came out on top because I love soymilk and have been drinking it all my life due to a former dairy allergy. Once the allergy was gone, I tried cow milk and hated it, so great job soy milk👏
i know your comment is old but i have to defend liking soy milk to my peers and it's so annoying!
When my lactose intolerance got so bad that I had to cut out dairy milk (until lactose free dairy milk came along), I tried all the alternative milks to work out which was the best - but, being British, my test was based on which mixed best in a cup of tea. To which, soya milk ran away with the prize; it was the only alternative milk to mix well in tea at all! All the other alternative milks broke down and became powdery. So, OK, I wasn't mad about the taste of soya milk, but it did what I wanted the best and I got used to the taste so it *is* the best alternative milk, to go in a cup of tea, at least.
Oatly Barista edition also works in tea because it has an acidity regulator. But most oat milk doesn't have that.
Nice to see some Cashew representation. As someone who drinks copious amounts of milk and performed my own research into alternatives, I think it absolutely blows the other options out of the water. Alone, it tastes really good with an excellent texture and has a flavour profile that doesn't conflict with my cereal. In some ways, I actually like it better than dairy - which I can't say about any of the other alternatives except one niche use-case: coconut milk is really bad - unless you use it for baking and desserts! Depending on the recipe, it can even be better than the real stuff.
Have you considered hemp milk? IMO hands down the best.
And since it’s hemp which is a weed it uses a lot less water to actually grow.
And it has omegas.
I love coconut milk!! And oat milk is really good. I can’t have cashews or almond milk. Or soy either.
@@FukaiKokoro I think, from that perspective, oat milk is probably better since oat crops require less water than hemp. Hemp actually takes a lot of water to grow compared to grain crops, but it's true that it's still much better than growing nuts.
I found this extremely interesting as I am currently exploring non dairy options.
I can't have Almond because I'm allergic, I used soy for a while,. It I have a mild allergy and too much will have an adverse effect. I drank cashew for a while but started breaking out into hives when I found the brands I drank were made with almond milk.
I liked ripple (pea) but it's too expensive in the amounts that I drink it.
Oat is what I'm drinking now, and that seems to be working well.
Mostly using it to mix protein shakes.
If you drink a lot, fast, it may be worth it to make your own oat milk. It's super easy and for $5 of oats you can be set for weeks to months. It only lasts a few days though, since there's no stabalizers in it.
Chocolate versions of these are super different to their plain counterparts.a friend of mine threw a milk party once and it was a lot of different experiences
That's a good party :)
What the heck is a milk party?
I'm sorry a milk party
can I be friends with that person too
Fr, the Silk brand of chocolate almond milk tastes like chocolate pudding and not at all like almond!
Sounds unhealthy. Must add extra sugar too because cocoa would be bitter. Just try different brands for taste and try to figure out how watered down they are from the label to not just have expensive water.
I love that the conclusion tallies with Good Mythical Morning's result with the milk alternative taste test
As a lactose intolerant individual, cashew and coconut has always been my go to personally.
You should try caramelizing coconut milk!
@@gravities that honestly sounds amazing! Thanks for the suggestion, will def try sometime.
i use fairlife. i have no fucking idea what its made of. it said its plantbased tho
Coconut milk is simply bad
@@ZomboidMania and that right there is called an opinion
people are allowed to have those, by the way
Okay, I noticed one glaring omission in your testing. You tested all these milk alternatives in baking, but what about regular cooking? The primary use of milk in my kitchen is to make creamy sauces that I use in pasta dishes, casseroles, and other stuff like that. I want to know how these alternatives compare to milk in the making of sauces (without having to spend a fortune going out to buy a bunch of different milk alternatives to try it myself). Also, what about shelf life? How long will each one stay good? I hope you'll do a follow up and expand the parameters (though I doubt you will).
In my experience almond milk works the best for making creamy sauces texture wise but you will get a little bit of a toasted almond taste but I find it works
Soy in my experience (use it all the time as a substitute) will add "sweetness" when heated to the recipe.
It would probably be the same results as the coffee foam testing.
i have used unopened soy milk a whole year after purchase and it was fine.
i told this to an x and she said 'well only you are going to know that.'
Yeah to me this would be a more relevant metric than coffee foaming because I don't get those sorts of drinks.
Hey Matt Pat could you please try and make a food theory about how many breadsticks you would have to eat at Olive Garden to actually make the restaurant go out of business
Ok dont read my name😑....
Yes
I would actually love to see this
The ultimate theory
@YоuTubе 🅥 R U okay?
Important thing to mention is that dairy is heavily subsidized so it adds up that it would be cheaper than alternatives
I would have added “Ease of DIY” because Oat is very easy to make, and Cashew is pretty easy. And, in Baking, Coconut is useful when the coconut cream is separated. It’s so thicker
While it’s not a “milk”, aquafaba-the juice from cooking chickpeas-might be useful for frothing, since it can be used to make meringue.
17:38 Soy milk is marked as #1 and Oat is marked as #2, but at 17:48, They're reversed. Small mistake, but other than that, great video! I really want to try Cashew milk now. Also, this video being sponsored by Geico really caught me off guard
Okay. Glad I'm not crazy. Thanks!
I'll bet the graphics artists was an Oatmilk supporter.
Lol we saw the same thing.
Yep, kindof shocked this isn't higher up in the comments
Glad I wasn't the only one, was getting concerned. Thanks!
Oat milk makes the best ice cream, in case anyone was curious. It's smooth and stable and doesn't impart very much oatb taste, even with vanilla or strawberry
Today marks the day I switch from almond milk to soy milk, especially in coffee! Thanks, Team Theorist!!
Ever since I tasted non-dairy milk, for more than a few months, I was unable to get back to dairy milk because of its taste and the bad stomach feeling afterwards.
But I'm unable to decide on just one milk alternative.
I used to like Soy-Rice-Drink, but IDK if it was me getting older or them changing the recipe slightly, it didn't taste (only by itself) as good as it used to be.
Look into A2 milk. Many people report being able to drink it when they had problems with "regular" milk before.
Coconut milk feels like its own thing. It's great when it's used specifically for the coconut flavor and creaminess, but those unique characteristics mean that it probably doesn't make much sense to substitute for cow milk. Coconut based deserts, drinks, and other sorts of food can be quite tasty, although they can certainly be unhealthy and in some cases loaded with added sugar (which contributes to the taste). Sweet Chinese style coconut milk drinks were one of my favorite things to drink as a kid, although these days I don't drink them as much for health reasons.
In terms of baking, I'm somewhat curious how the milks would compare to water and perhaps sugar water as controls. That would help to understand how much the ingredients themselves are actually contributing to the recipe, I feel.
My personal favorite milk to drink would be oat milk, but it's definitely problematic as a coffee additive since it takes away from the flavor of the bean itself due to its oaty flavor. For dark roasts though, the oat flavor could also be considered a plus, potentially, depending on what you're going for. It's actually the reason I enjoy drinking it straight. That said, being allergic to soy, peas, and cashews do mean that I haven't really been able to drink that many milk alternatives.
my speciality coffee shop swears by oat. In the UK high end coffee scene it's neck and neck between oatily and minor figures, generally seen as equal but one is superior foam and texture and the other has superior flavour, so it ends up being the barristas preference.
Minor figures is tasty stuff. It's available online in Japan as well, although I often end up drinking it straight before I can use it on anything else.
"For health reasons" being the added sugar, or to avoid the coconut milk itself? Cus coconut milk, unless you're allergic, is one of the best drinks you can have for your health.
What they used in the video is not the same thing as the cooking coconut milk that is used in Asia. There are 2 types of coconut milk. 100% Coconut milk that is meant for cooking and coconut milk drink or beverage which is diluted coconut milk meant for drinking.
@@user-gj1np9rp4d lol! I was thinking the same thing. the coconut milk in the refrigerated case that I put on my cereal is very different from the coconut milk I usually get canned that I cook with
16:12 im pretty sure dairy milk is subsidised by the government, which is what makes it far cheaper than other milks
My favorite “milk” is pistachio milk. I also love cashew milk. When it comes to drinking it, that is, and to use in things to drink
While I drink normal whole milk, there have been times when I've tried milk alternatives. Soy milk actually makes me sick, so I can't consume it. It also never really tasted that good to me as milk, despite me loving soy sauce and tofu. Almond milk...just...no... While it doesn't make me sick, the texture is weird, and the taste makes it worse. It's weird, cause I love almonds, so I figured I'd like almond milk. Oat milk, on the other hand was super delicious and felt like the perfect milk alternative for me, if I ever need to drop regular milk for whatever reason. Ironically, I thought I'd hate oat milk since I'm not a huge fan of oatmeal. I guess I figured it'd be like that, but nope. Turned out to be just right. Anyways, great video.
I'm allergic to soy milk. Soy is a plant that needs careful consideration when put into one's diet.
Asian cultures usually ferment it. They know from experience how to make it viable as a food for many people - but soy milk was never something that came out of it, for a reason.
@@svr5423 because Asian cultures don’t really drink milk if I’m remembering right I think Most Asians are lactose because milk is something they didn’t really have in their dishes
@@theblackoutexplorer2658 you are right that milk is rarely consumed in most parts of asia.
But would assume that it would make it easier for a drink made from soy beans that doesn't affect lactose intolerant people to become popular - if it were a good idea.
In contrast, there is little incentive to replace milk with something else (that has limited applicability) in western cultures.
I would have loved to see the visuals of all the tests. I really appreciate the video, it was very informative. However, I kept wondering what do the cupcakes look like or I would've like to see the foam.
Knowing that so many dairy farms have gone out of business makes me so happy. It only takes a quick Google search to learn about the absolutely horrendous things that happen to those sweet cows and their newborn babies. 😢
The face reveal we all been waiting for as finally arrive at 8:32.
WHAT IS IT WITH 2022 AND FACE REVEALS WE GOT DREAM, MARIO MOVIE MARIO AND NOW FRIGGIN ASH, boi this is a good year
My favorites: rice/hazelnut and rice/coconut. The rice adds sweetness and the nuts add creaminess and flavor. Luckily my local supermarket chain has their own house brand of these drinks so they are cheap and readily available. Score! BTW, these two drinks mix great with vodka if you like that kind of thing.
Rice+hazelnut is the best! Oat and soy next, but for different uses
Oat brings an extra layer of taste when paired with coffee, also overall brings a delightful earthiness to some dishes that are on the more sweet side that I've experienced.
I can't stand oat in coffee. It literally makes me shiver drinking it.
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i went into this fully thinking almond would win, i drink it almost every day and i love it! i had no idea so many people didn’t like it
Truth be told. Almond milk is like a Kombucha or whatever this drink called. A very narrow specific taste which either makes you say I love it or get it out from me.
to be fair, it really just depends on if you like the taste of almonds so much you would eat them with every meal. i hate almonds, therefore hate almond milk. 🤷
@@first.user_ have you tried the vanilla flavored almond milk with no sweetener?
I like that one. It tastes more similar to cows milk to me. 😊
That was me with coconut milk. It's the only one I can stand and makes me feel happy. Also love to cook with it
@@first.user_ I don't care for almonds, I can't eat them on their own, only if they're in the same bite as dried fruit.
But I think Almond milk and Cashew milk were my favorite of the milk alternatives.
17:40 The editor derped or cheated. They put Oat on #1 in the end again in the slide even though a second before MatPat crowned Soy.
They could literally change the name of pea milk to bean milk since a pea is basically a type of bean. Bean milk sounds less weird
Could you maybe do a part two exploring what’s more environmentally friendly?
I believe it's oat
Definitely oat, he's mentioned it in another video.
Anyone know where it was mentioned. I was wondering about this as well?
Actually I can't find it so maybe I'm wrong about him mentioning it.
Does it even make a real big difference ? I mean compared to heating your appartment or using an AC or something else that a person does.
But here are the numbers of a source I found for Germany.
1 Litre of milk is calculated in Europe with arround 1,2 KG of CO2. That means for me I use about 1 litre per week. it is arround 68 KG CO2 per year.
Rice. 0,9 KG CO2
Soy. 0,9 KG CO2
Almond. 0,7 KG CO2
Oat. 0,6 KG CO2