How healthy is your oat milk latte?
They have been marketed as the healthy alternative to cow’s milk, but how healthy are oat milks?
Unlike cow’s milk which has only a limited amount of handling and processing at the diary, oat milks are quite labour intensive to produce and is mainly made up of water. If you chose to drink oat milks to try and reduce a cholesterol problem, you might have to drink as many as three or four glasses of it a day according to some dietitians. That’s around 750ml a day.
The vast majority of oat milks on the market are around 10 per cent oats and 90 per cent water. This ratio is to stop the liquid from having a too thick texture and this watering down reduces a large part of the oat’s cholesterol reducing properties.
