![]() ![]() Almond milk has become a healthy alternative for those who are lactose intolerant, vegan or for those just looking for a healthier alternative to milk. Benefits of Almond Milk Almond milk is a healthy dairy-free option that works just like cow’s milkĪlmond milk is lower in calories and carbs, it has no cholesterol or saturated fat. Providing a creamy texture and nutty flavor, almond milk has come a long way to now be widely accessible at most grocery stores and coffee shops with numerous varieties and flavors. The California almond industry in the years from 2008 to 2013 went on a blitzkrieg marketing and publicity campaign which ended with magazines proclaiming almonds as a superfood and in 2013, almond overtook soya as the best-selling plant milk in the United States. The rapid growth of soya was short-lived and in 2008 Blue Diamond Growers sensed an opportunity for capturing the market.īlue Diamond Growers’ milk brand, called Almond Breeze, lagged behind Silk, then America’s leading soya brand, but thanks to a partnership with the second largest dairy in the country and new research into the health benefits of almonds, the effect was almost immediate. From Belgian food tech Philippe Vandemoortele who decided to use a new packing technology in 1981 to sell soya milk to the late ’90s when WhiteWave moved the product to the refrigerated aisle alongside the dairy milk, the boom began. But it wasn’t until the Plantmilk Society which was established in London by Leslie Cross in 1956 that a dairy replacement really took shape. In the Kitab al-Tabikh a Baghdadi cookbook from 1226 there is the earliest mention of almond milk while in China soya milk has been made since at least the 14th century. This steady growth of non-dairy milk over the past couple of years is nothing new as the notion of milking plants actually goes all the way back to the 13 th and 14 th centuries. ![]() While soy milk (13 percent market share) and coconut milk (12 percent market share) and other plant-based milk alternatives (like hazelnut, peanut, tiger nut, walnut, cashew, coconut, hemp, spelt, quinoa and pea – just to name a few) make up this category, almond milk with 64 percent market share is far and away the frontrunner. Comparatively, the average American in 1975 consumed 130 liters of dairy milk versus 149 liters in 2017 during which time milk sales have fallen 15% since 2012. Research in 2017 from Mintel shows an increase of non-dairy milk sales by 61 percent since 2012 and are still estimated to reach $2.11 billion in 2017. Between 20, the market for almond milk surged by 250%. As the popularity of plant-based nutrition has grown, one vertical that has been leading the charge is dairy-free milk. ![]()
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