soymilk --- any good??

MB_ said:

New to this group. I recently got some soymilk, Lite at my grocery store.

So, my question: can I use it instead of milk or am I missing something?

One can use soy milk or rice milk in place of cow's milk.
Cow's milk because it is a mucus creating food item and because of its heavy
and thick casein protein - may not be suitable for human use. Humans may
have digestive problem with the casein protein contained within cow's milk.
See these web sites: www.notmilk.com and www.panix.com/~nomilk .

There's nothing really in milk you can't easily get someplace else.
Soymilk by comparison is going to be low in calcium, unless fortified.
It also doesn't have as much magnesium or potassium as milk. The last
two are easily obtainable in fruit juice. Calcium fortified OJ makes
soy milk look bad, mineral-wise, and also has folate. Depends on what
you're looking for.

SBH

But then drinking water makes milk look bad in the potasium and magnesium
department so the point is moot.

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There's nothing really in milk you can't easily get someplace else.
Soymilk by comparison is going to be low in calcium, unless fortified.
It also doesn't have as much magnesium or potassium as milk. The last
two are easily obtainable in fruit juice. Calcium fortified OJ makes
soy milk look bad, mineral-wise, and also has folate. Depends on what
you're looking for.

SBH

MB_ said:

Howdy:

New to this group. I recently got some soymilk, Lite at my grocery store.

It tastes good and the ingredients/vitamins/percentages seem to be similar
to the fat free milk I usually drink.

Of course, the soymilk is not milk at all.

But, it tastes quite good.

So, my question: can I use it instead of milk or am I missing something?

MB

Read this before you consume any soy product:

http://www.westonaprice.org/soy/soy_studies.html

TC

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But then drinking water makes milk look bad in the potasium and magnesium

department so the point is moot. <<

That depends a lot on what water you drink, of course. It's hardly true
of the average water from the average tap in the US, even unsoftened.