These are the 7 types of milk you want to know

In Melbourne I learned to drink coffee. That was just about a year ago, so my coffee career is still fairly in its toddler cappuccino shoes. To wake up, I drink my cups all black and ‘for the taste’ I throw in some milk. But what kind of milk? Because you don't give those intestines cow's milk anymore, right? Oat, soy, almond, coconut, cashew; something with trees and a forest. Therefore, a small comparative study to carefully choose your milk.

Semi-skimmed milk

That's just the one from the cow. Not vegan and including lactose, but it also contains calcium and other Bob the Builder substances. 48 calories for a splash of 100 ml, and 100 ml of whole milk counts for 65 calories.

Soy milk

We massively throw soy milk into our latte. This variant is vegetarian, vegan, and contains no lactose. But there is a lot to say about the soy variant as well. It's not good for your body, because they say it contains carcinogenic substances, and it's not good for the environment, because a lot of trees are being cut down. 32 kcal per 100 ml. On to oat milk.

Oat milk

Or better said oat drink, because since it's not milk, we can't call it that either. Oats soaked in water, that's the recipe. By the way, if you want to make a plant-based cappuccino, it works best with oat milk. 100 ml contains 35 kcal, in a latte there are about 375 milliliters of milk. Do the math.

Almond milk

This milk is made from nuts. With 17 calories per 100 ml, this is the skinny bitch among the milks. And it contains few calories, but also few proteins. A splash of semi-skimmed milk contains three times as much protein as a cup of almond milk. So it just depends on what you need.

Coconut milk

Not to be confused with coconut cream, because you shouldn't drink too much of that. The coconut milk I'm talking about is a kind of cloudy coconut water. Also very nice for your tropical smoothie, by the way. It contains 20 calories per 100 ml, just as much as the cashew variant.

Cashew milk

This nut juice is very easy to make yourself. Creamy, full of flavor, and lots of vitamins, but low in calories.

Rice milk

I have tried almost all of the above variations, in coffee or in my bowl granola, except for rice milk, because I never drank that. This milk contains no lactose, no fat, no cholesterol but a lot of vitamins, so I know what I'm going to test next time for my coffee.

Milk them, huh.