{"id":17121,"date":"2021-03-23T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=17121"},"modified":"2021-03-12T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T19:23:09","slug":"the-market-for-plant-milks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/23\/the-market-for-plant-milks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Market for Plant Milks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recently released survey of 995 households in the United\nStates compared consumers who used plant milks with those using dairy milk.\nAbout 60% of the households surveyed used dairy milk exclusively or almost\nexclusively. About 23% of the households used plant milks, mainly almond milk, exclusively\nor almost exclusively. A little more than 15% of households surveyed use both\ndairy milk and plant milk.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     These results,\nsuggesting that more than a third of households use plant milks, are supported\nby trends in dairy milk consumption in the United States. Per capita dairy milk\nconsumption declined by 41% between 1975 and 2018. We should note that overall\nper capita dairy product consumption has increased over this period.\nPlant-based yogurt, cheese, and butter are increasingly available, but have\nseemingly not yet had a large effect on consumption of dairy yogurt, cheese,\nand butter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Survey\nrespondents whose households used plant milks, either exclusively or along with\ndairy milk, tended to be younger than those whose households used dairy milks\nexclusively. This has potential implications for future trends in plant milk\nconsumption. Those respondents whose households used plant milks either\nexclusively or partially were likely or somewhat likely to use plant milks in\nplace of dairy milk as a beverage, in coffee or tea, in cooking, on cereal, in\nsmoothies, in desserts, and for children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Interestingly,\nalmost 10% overall of the households that were surveyed said that at least one\nperson in the household was vegetarian or vegan. Eleven percent of households\nalmost exclusively using plant milks had at least one vegan or vegetarian in\nthe household compared to 27% of households which used plant and dairy milk and\n4% of households which exclusively used dairy milk. No information was provided\nas to how the survey defined \u201cvegetarian\u201d or \u201cvegan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wolf CA, Malone T, McFadden BR. Beverage milk consumption\npatterns in the United States: Who is substituting from dairy to plant-based\nbeverages? J Dairy Sci<\/em>. 2020;103(12):11209-11217.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For nutrition information on coconut, nut, seed, pea, grain,\nand soy milks, see: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutrition\/milk_alternatives\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For VRG\u2019s national poll on what Americans expect from a\nbeverage labeled as soymilk, see: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/30\/what-do-american-adults-expect-from-a-beverage-labeled-soymilk-questions-asked-by-the-vegetarian-resource-group-in-a-national-poll\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD A recently released survey of 995 households in the United States compared consumers who used plant milks with those using dairy milk. About 60% of the households surveyed used dairy milk exclusively or almost exclusively. About 23% of the households used plant milks, mainly almond milk, exclusively or almost exclusively. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17123,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121\/revisions\/17123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}