March 2009

A while ago while I was doing some routine grocery shopping a rectangular cardboard carton caught my eye. It was in the health food aisle, right next to the soy milk and the rice milk, but it wasn't soy milk or rice milk. It was almond milk. There were several varieties; unsweetened, sweetened, vanilla, and chocolate. I note that the flavored versions, vanilla and chocolate, are also available with or without sweetening. There are several different companies making almond milk, and they all seem to have the same basic types. The primary difference is that some of the makers are producing organic almond milk, and some use cane sugar as their sweetener, but others use a variety of other sweeteners.

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