• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      12 days ago

      People drink it as an alternative because it has similar gustatory properties, so yes it very much is something that can be compared to animal milk.

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      It’s called oat milk because it’s a nut-based beverage deliberately designed to mimic many of the properties and uses of actual cow’s milk. It’s not like oat milk is literally just juice pressed from oats. There are a whole series of steps, added ingredients, and chemical processes meant to make the resulting product as interchangeable for cow’s milk as possible.