Healthiest option for non dairy? Soy vs rice milk vs oat milk

[Olive]

I pay around $2.60 a litre in melbourne

[MantaRay]

I still have dairy in coffee, I just can't get used to anything else. But I got used to oat milk on cereal very easily. I think it's more similar in taste to dairy than the others.

[damprye]

I have found the problem with a2 milk, goat milk, etc is that they have similar protein as cows milk and an allergy/intolerance to the protein is often mistaken for lactose intolerance and since the proteins are so similar, those that react to cows milk will often react to other dairy milk. Ds2 is on soy and we try to give him almond/oat/rice milk but he often refuses them. Luckily if he is refusing all milk, he still takes his mummy milk

[LoveKnowsNoBounds]

WOW!!! thanks so much for all of the info. I can't believe it. It has really turned me off soy. I wouldn't want to do something that could hurt him in the future We haven't tasted oat milk but will give it a go on the weekend. Are there any potential issues with oat milk?

I'd read somewhere that rice milk has a naturally occurring arsenic in it? Anyone heard of this before? I think it tastes ok, it's great for baking and I've used it in pancakes. Better tasting than soy.

Thanks again for the info. Don't get a chance to research with my 10 month old monkey

[luna moth]

Our family has soy because I've never read any actual science that suggests we shouldn't have it in the quantities we do. There are hundreds of bad interpretations of one data set that has since been contradicted, which it seems people have clung onto.

We also have almond milk or protein enriched rice milk.

[Marley&Me]

I just bought the oat milk and it tastes pretty much the same as soy, I'm really liking it I am also going to try Zymil, it's just lactose free and I'm not sure what causes me to bloat in real milk so i guess I'll see what happens...

BTW, rice milk is FERAL. It was so watery and sweet :/

[krysalyss]

I prefer soy but then I don't drink a whole lot - just in coffee and the occasional bowl of cereal. If you are big consumers of milk then mix it up a little - each milk will have different constituents and variety is usually a pretty good rule of thumb when it comes to nutrition.