Almond Milk vs Soy Milk

Dominique19 · 05-23-2009, 07:24 PM

soy milk tastes funny have yet to try almond milk

Dominique19 · 05-23-2009, 07:25 PM

I will give it a try though

Justafewmore · 06-19-2009, 01:49 PM

I like Almond milk more than Soy though I love Soy

jendiet · 06-19-2009, 05:20 PM

hey there i decided to jump in...

I actually tried switching to soy milk from cow's milk. But I am still menstruating and boy did that wreak havoc on my cycle. I had estrogen dominance issues to begin with but I was told the phytoestrogens in soy would bind my estrogen receptors so that my available estrogen would go down...I don't think it did that. I got a flare up of endometriosis according to my doctor-that is what caused my organs to get twisted out of shape!

i am currently on prometrium. So I really want to figure out where to buy Almond milk. I don't think rice has enough of anything in it. I might try to make my own. IN the meantime...I found this wonderful full fat cow's milk..it is so natural you actually have to skim the fat off the top like they had to do in the olden days! I can switch to almond milk no problem though.

zenor77 · 06-19-2009, 05:43 PM

I love almond milk. The unsweetened is much lower in calories than soy milk and it's tasty.

I find that it's the same price as soy milk. It goes on sale often too. I really like the Pacific Brand (35 calories a cup.) They have unsweetened that isn't vanilla flavored, which is my preference.

I do eat soy, but not regularly and mostly fermented soy (tempeh, natto, miso, etc.) From what I understand, fermented soy doesn't have the health problems associated with it that regular soy does.

bargoo · 06-19-2009, 06:21 PM

I do not use soy milk because of the estrogen, I like it , though. I use Almond Milk,. I find Almond Breeze at major supermarkets and some neighborhood stores. I get the unsweetened , it is 40 calories.

ICUwishing · 06-19-2009, 09:38 PM

I just got back an IgG allergy test that recommended I avoid eating soy more than once every 4 days. No real heartache there - I absolutely love the same unsweetened Almond Breeze that bargoo mentions. I was trying to avoid the unfermented soy products anyway, so no great loss there.

Me Too · 06-20-2009, 07:11 AM

I must be weird i love soy milk, i even make my own and just ordered a soymilk maker. I tried Almond milk and it has a funny taste to me.

bacilli · 06-20-2009, 07:45 AM

It really depends for me. I use almond milk in my oatmeal but if I eat cereal it has to be soy milk.

kaebea · 06-20-2009, 09:33 PM

i like almond milk better, but normally buy cows milk, organic or humanely raised. I'm interested in buying it unpasteurized but can't find it that way.

the think i don't like about store bought mild subs. is that when you read the ingredients there's always some kind of sugar and other wierd ingredients added. i've heard almond milk is easy to make, but haven't tried that yet.

JulieJ08 · 06-20-2009, 10:21 PM

I've always found unsweetened versions pretty easy to find. However, cows milk has a fair amount of sugars, so to get a somewhat equivalent taste does mean allowing for some added sugars. Milk has around 12g sugars and unsweetened soymilk has around 2g (I think - I'm going by memory for both). I find sweetened soymilks with anywhere from about 6g to 15g or more of sugar. I'm still on the fence about it, but it seems like a soymilk with, say 8 or 9g of sugar, some of it added, is not so much worse than cows milk with 12g sugar. I'm going to have to experiment again with buying unsweetened and adding agave syrup. Most (not all) soymilks I find are sweetened with cane sugar.

kaebea · 06-23-2009, 07:46 AM

Its not so much the total sugar i'm concerned about. it's additives that make me distrustful of a food at the store.
From a 'Whole Foods" perspective, naturally occurring sugar in cow's milk is ok to me. The problem i have with cows milk though is that i think i may be mildly lactose intolerant, or some other how sensitive to dairy foods. So i have been pondering milk substitutes.
I'm wary of foods that are made as substitutes for other foods in general, bc if you read the ingredients , they are mostly additives. ei, immitation chicken nuggets, immitation meats of all kinds. Just bc something is marketed as a healthier alternative does not make it a whole food in my view.

making my own almond milk does appeal to me though, where i can control what sweetner is used, if any. and i just got this recipe emailed to me the other day if anyone is interested:

http://drbenkim.com/almond-milk-recipe.htm