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Alpro 'Almond' milk

  • 13-06-2014 9:26pm
    #1
    MiloDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭


    I was going to buy some thinking it was healthy, read ingredients guess how much almonds?
    2%. It is mainly composed of sugar and water. What's going on here, where is the consumer protection? Also I noticed Innocent smoothies bulk up their products with cheaper apple and banana juice but label it strawberry/cherry.


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  • #2
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    One the smoothie issue that's pretty common in commercial smoothies. Even in a smoothie bar you'll usually get them throwing a banana and some orange juice in.

    On the almond milk issue I'm not sure it's a problem. Cows milk is 87% water and 5% sugar so there's only 8% milk solids in milk. Considering almonds are quite strong tasting it's not unreasonable to think that 8% almonds would be quite strong tasting.


  • #3
    Pang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    I have made my own almond milk and it's roughly 3 to 4 cups of water to 1 cup of almonds. They need to be soaked first in order to fully break them down.


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