[powertower]

These types of drinks have nothing in common with milk...

The manufacturing process involves grinding almonds, oats, etc, into a very fine particulate powder, mixing it into water.

Then adding in all things necessary to keep it in suspension, and making it drinkable (try "almond milk" without the sugar and see how long it takes you to regurgitate it back out).

Almond-milk wasn't even selling until they placed it into the refrigerated section of the store next to real milk - to confuse the buyers with what it actually was-not.

It is likely that most consumers think the manufacturers press or squeeze the almonds to get at its "milk", and have no idea they are just drinking a few grams of powdered almonds.

[mollusk]

I don't think anyone confuses nut milk for cow milk in stores. It's usually more expensive than cow milk and clearly labeled with the specific main ingredient. I don't think these companies are trying to deceive anyone. There's a relatively small subset of consumers, who are interested in milk substitutes, so it's a niche product that serves them well. And cow milk contains sugars too, lactose, which is a disaccharide of galactose and glucose. Finally, the thought that they would squeeze almonds to get milk also never even crossed my mind. I know it's a suspension of powdered almonds in water. There's even recipes of DIY nut milk, that are essentially "grind almonds, add water, stir". So your whole argument seems just ridiculous to me.

[BenjiWiebe]

Unsweetened almond milk isn't bad at all. I have a sweet tooth, so I prefer sweetened, but it isn't bad.

[sitharus]

Having both made almond milk and purchased unsweetened almond milk (from the separate non-dairy milk section where it sells quite well) it's just fine. It doesn't need additives, though adding some vegetable gum, oil and emulsifier improves the texture.

Regular cow's milk is around 5% sugar as lactose (I think 4.8% is the typically standardised amount). Unsweetened almond milk has negligible sugar.

[hnnsj]

What's your point? That oat milk is processed? Do you usually drink cow milk from the udder? Of course it's heavily processed and enriched with different additives as well.