Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Silk, Wondermilk
Did you know that a cup of lowfat milk has 11 grams of sugar? OK, it's not exactly Coca Cola, but for something wholesome, it sure has a lot of simple carbohydrates.
Silk unsweetened soymilk, (in the teal package) has 1 gram of sugar per cup. It also has a small amount of fiber (which is absent in milk.) No transfat, no cholesterol, and exactly the same amount of calcium. Milk beats silk on protein, coming in at 8 grams over 7. Big deal.
Somehow silk is only 10 calories less per one cup serving, but still, the sugar thing is a pretty good reason to recommend it. It also tastes good. (Not all the soymilk brands taste good. For all my avid pursuing of anything nutritious and pure, I have not developed a taste for baby formula!)
I wouldn't cook with it or anything but I find it is actually better in espresso based drinks than milk is. Both are bean based, and the nuttiness of soy tastes very good with coffee. It's good in oatmeal, too.
And I really like milk, and cream, and butter and full fat yogurt. But for my daily morning jolt of protien, no sugar, please! Since it is free of all that vanilla flavoring and sugar, it might be nice on mashed potatoes, but I haven't had the guts to mess with my mashed potatoes yet.
I will try a product just because I think it is a cool idea or company, but I can't stay with it unless it is really good and a good value. Silk is a bit expensive, but it is 100% organic, and the company is totally cool. They're using wind to provide energy to process the soybeans, and were the US Department of Energy's Green Power Partner of the Year for 2004.
The company, Whitewave, has a sense of humor, too. On the jobs site it says:
"40 hours a week and all the tofu you can eat.
Just kidding. Sometimes we work more than 40 hours a week."
I would like to go work there, but I just simply cannot live in Colorado. No offense.
The boxes have little games and articles on them, (you can read with your breakfast-like grown up cereal boxes.) It is available in regular chilled milk cartons and aseptic containers, as far as I can tell, there is no difference in the taste or quality. I like the aseptic containers because you don't have to refriderate them until they're open. Actually, if you can find milk in aseptic containers, it is much better, as the light, bleaching agents and temp change of other containers degrade the flavor of the milk. In Poland, they sell milk and juice in those aseptic paper boxes-convenient, square (cheap to ship), and super tasty!
Silk unsweetened soymilk, (in the teal package) has 1 gram of sugar per cup. It also has a small amount of fiber (which is absent in milk.) No transfat, no cholesterol, and exactly the same amount of calcium. Milk beats silk on protein, coming in at 8 grams over 7. Big deal.
Somehow silk is only 10 calories less per one cup serving, but still, the sugar thing is a pretty good reason to recommend it. It also tastes good. (Not all the soymilk brands taste good. For all my avid pursuing of anything nutritious and pure, I have not developed a taste for baby formula!)
I wouldn't cook with it or anything but I find it is actually better in espresso based drinks than milk is. Both are bean based, and the nuttiness of soy tastes very good with coffee. It's good in oatmeal, too.
And I really like milk, and cream, and butter and full fat yogurt. But for my daily morning jolt of protien, no sugar, please! Since it is free of all that vanilla flavoring and sugar, it might be nice on mashed potatoes, but I haven't had the guts to mess with my mashed potatoes yet.
I will try a product just because I think it is a cool idea or company, but I can't stay with it unless it is really good and a good value. Silk is a bit expensive, but it is 100% organic, and the company is totally cool. They're using wind to provide energy to process the soybeans, and were the US Department of Energy's Green Power Partner of the Year for 2004.
The company, Whitewave, has a sense of humor, too. On the jobs site it says:
"40 hours a week and all the tofu you can eat.
Just kidding. Sometimes we work more than 40 hours a week."
I would like to go work there, but I just simply cannot live in Colorado. No offense.
The boxes have little games and articles on them, (you can read with your breakfast-like grown up cereal boxes.) It is available in regular chilled milk cartons and aseptic containers, as far as I can tell, there is no difference in the taste or quality. I like the aseptic containers because you don't have to refriderate them until they're open. Actually, if you can find milk in aseptic containers, it is much better, as the light, bleaching agents and temp change of other containers degrade the flavor of the milk. In Poland, they sell milk and juice in those aseptic paper boxes-convenient, square (cheap to ship), and super tasty!
# posted by Comida Evangelista : 1:09 PM
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