{"id":24815,"date":"2025-05-19T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=24815"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T16:34:22","slug":"oat-dairy-drink-not-a-vegan-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/19\/oat-dairy-drink-not-a-vegan-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Oat Dairy Drink \u2013 Not a Vegan Product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Avena-Alpina-Original-Litro-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Avena-Alpina-Original-Litro-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Avena-Alpina-Original-Litro-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Avena-Alpina-Original-Litro-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I was tired or thinking of other things as I walked the aisles of a supermarket in New York. On the aisle with packages of shelf-stable soymilk and almond milk, I saw shrink-wrapped three-packs of small aseptic boxes, each with a plastic straw. The boxes were labeled \u201cOat Dairy Drink\u201d and came in flavors including original, cinnamon, and strawberry. I thought they were a brand of oat milk that I hadn\u2019t seen before. They weren\u2019t. On closer inspection, I realized that the ingredients included whole grain oats, <strong>cow\u2019s milk<\/strong>, and cane sugar. These were not vegan products. Lesson learned \u2013 just because a product sounds to me like it\u2019s oat milk, it may not be.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about non-dairy oat milks see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutrition\/guide-to-plan-milks-2024.pdf\">Guide to Plant Milks 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutrition\/grain-and-pea-milks-2024-table.pdf\">Grain and Pea Milks 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We often depend on product and ingredient information from company statements. It is impossible to be 100% sure about a statement, info can change, people have different views, and mistakes can be made. Please use your best judgment about whether a product is suitable for you. To be sure, do further research or confirmation on your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD Maybe I was tired or thinking of other things as I walked the aisles of a supermarket in New York. On the aisle with packages of shelf-stable soymilk and almond milk, I saw shrink-wrapped three-packs of small aseptic boxes, each with a plastic straw. The boxes were labeled \u201cOat Dairy [&hellip;]<\/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-24815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24815","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=24815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24817,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24815\/revisions\/24817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}