A great alternative to milk or soya milk (Oatly Healthy Oat Organic Drink)

Member Name: song_of_calliope

Product:	Oatly Healthy Oat Organic Drink
Date:	11/10/09 (11 review reads)
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Advantages: Good flavour, extremely good for your health

Disadvantages: Price

I don't drink much cow's milk as I don't like the taste very much, and my usual replacement is soya milk. However my mother has started drinking Oatly after being told by her doctor that she should avoid soya. This plus the fact that she has a lactose intolerance led her to try alternatives including Rice Milk and Oatly. She decided to stick with Oatly as she prefers it to Rice Milk due to taste, and I agree with her.

Oatly is sugar free and doesn't contain any saturated fat. It is made from water and oats plus a tiny bit of sea salt and that's it, so you can't get more wholesome and natural than that. Oats are very good for lowering cholesterol and are one of the most frequently recommended foods for health in all the articles I've read about eating well. If you don't like the taste of porridge, oatly could be a good way to get your oats in.

Oatly doesn't really taste of oats, perhaps as it's so well blended and smooth. It has a nice, light flavour and I find you need to add a bit more of it to tea or coffee than you would soya or regular milk in order to get that same milky colour and flavour. It has a pleasant, inoffensive taste and isn't chalky like soya milk can be.

I have used Oatly on cereal and in tea and coffee and find it to be very good in baking as well. I have also used it to make pancakes and these were also very good. Basically I haven't run across any situation where Oatly doesn't offer a good alternative where you would normally use some other type of milk.

The only downside to Oatly is the price. It usually costs around £1.50 or so for a carton which is almost £1 more than an equal amount of soya milk would cost. This is the reason why I only have Oatly when I'm round at my mother's house and when I'm at home I stick with soya milk.

Summary: Everything milk can do this can do at least as well