This list is highly researched, not sponsored and 100 per cent honest, trust me
Two years ago, I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease, a type of inflammatory bowel disease that inflames your digestive tract and leads to pain, fatigue, diarrhoea and more. As a major foodie (and occasional food writer), this was terrifying for me because suddenly, I had to pay very close attention to my diet in order to figure out which foods triggered me and which were ‘safe’ foods. So many foods have gone out the window in the last few years but arguably the worst elimination I had to make was dairy.
I could no longer manage cheese, yoghurt, my morning dose of Milo (this writer still does not drink coffee) or milk and I was devastated.
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At this point, I had already tried a number of almond milk brands in an attempt to substitute animal milk and I hated all of them equally and with just as much passion. This is really what depressed me the most. I couldn’t seem to find something that would adequately replace dairy (soy milk has a very different flavour profile) and figured that I would simply have to give up the pleasures of a cold glass of milk for good.
So, you can imagine my surprise when one day, someone bought me a carton of Alpro’s This Is Not Milk Whole oat milk and I tried it for the first time in my life. All it really took was a few sips for me to realise that the hype around almond milk at that point was unfounded. Oat milk deserves all the attention it has garnered over the years and I had no idea why it took me this long to figure it out.
Of course, not all oat milk is made the same. This led me down a rabbit hole of searching for the best oat milk on the island. Since then, I have tried just about every brand of oat milk out there (and as you know, plant-based milk brands have been popping up left, right and centre as the world attempts to be more sustainable and healthy).
However, plant-based milk is expensive and there’s nothing worse than buying a whole pricy carton only to realise that it tastes like watery milk soup with a bitter aftertaste to boot.
So below, I present to you, a very highly researched and extremely well thought out list of the worst to best oat milk brands and flavours on the island, ranked, for your experimentation.
1. All Good Original Oat Milk
Rating: 1/10
All Good is a fairly new oat milk brand in Singapore that is dairy-free, soy-free and something that we are slowly starting to see in online supermarkets.
Unfortunately, and I want to be delicate here, I took one sip and immediately regretted it. The milk was watery (not as creamy as one would assume) and left the worst aftertaste.
I want to guess that perhaps this largely has to do with the fact that the milk is unsweetened? But as someone who recently quit dairy and is venturing into the world of oat milk, I say skip this for now. Hopefully, as the brand develops, its formulation will too.
Buy it here.