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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 904 days ago
> I dunno if there's much difference between cow milk, soy milk, oat milk

Well given the fact that cow milk exists in nature, has been drank by humans for thousands of years, and the other two are trying to be like cow milk, right off the bat, I think a good working hypothesis is that cow milk is less processed than soy and oat milk. They may pasteurize and homogenize it and add some vitamins, but it is fundamentally pretty close to what came out of the cow. Soy mil and oat milk, need a lot more processing to turn soy and oats into something at resembles milk.

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Isn't oat milk just putting oats and water in a blender basically?
That's the exact question I had too. I don't know they just add water and soak, or if they use some sort of chemical process to dissolve the oats and isolate some powder that they reconstitute later... etc.

I feel like this should be information available on all labeling. I have no idea what "guar gum" is, and whether that's more processed than "enriched wheat flour", and whatever the hell "natural flavors" are.