What Kind of Milk do you buy?

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-18-2006
What Kind of Milk do you buy?
20
Fri, 02-06-2009 - 2:24pm

I am a SKIM milk fan - no doubt about it.

But, almost all skim milk has 11-13g sugar!

I WAS using that HOOD brand of "Calorie Countdown" - a milk "beverage" with only 3g sugar. It's in a greenishblue carton --- along with the specialtytype milks in the cases. I'm wondering now if they've discontinued it! I can't find it in the stores!!!?

I will email Hood to ask - but in the meantime:
Is there a special kind for diabetics? or do you just limit your intake?

Pages

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-06-2001
Sat, 02-07-2009 - 9:13pm

Milk has no added sugar.

 

Avatar for cl_maryfrances40
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Sat, 02-07-2009 - 11:49pm

Colleen,


Supposedly you are able to decrease the amount of flour in a recipe by 1/4 using almond flour. I found it at Trader Joe's which you may not have where you live. It is like Whole Earth but smaller and considerably cheaper. I haven't tried baking anything with it since I seldom bake anything anymore.

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-03-2003
Tue, 02-10-2009 - 9:13am

We're not talking about "added sugar" - sugar is sugar whether it's lactose, fructose, or sucrose - they are all carbs. All "ose" endings are sugars that at heart are glucose - it's just a matter of how the molecules of glucose are combined with whatever other stuff that determines whether it's lactose or fructose or sucrose or whomever. But, since it is, at heart, glucose, any "ose" will more quickly turn into glucose in the body - it's relatively easy to break two glucose molecules joined together into some other "ose" into two glucose molecules. And, since milk (and fruit juice, etc) are liquids, that "ose" digests more quickly than, say, the lactose in cheese or the fructose in a whole apple.

Almond milk contains no "ose" - it has a small amount of carb from fiber (I checked the nutrition panel this morning to check) and I'd bet soy milk is the same (since it's a bean, it's probably mostly fiber carbs rather than sugar carbs).

--Deb

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-06-2001
Tue, 02-10-2009 - 1:15pm

Ok..I know all about sugars...you really didn't need to give me a lecture on them.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-03-2003
Tue, 02-10-2009 - 2:33pm

Sorry - I didn't recognize your sig (so you could be a newcomer for all I can tell) and there are more people reading this than just you and me. You might know this info but there may be some out there reading quietly who might have thought that lactose is "OK" because it's not "added", it occurs naturally in milk, when it matters very little as far as our bodies are concerned if a sugar occurs naturally (as in lactose and fructose) or not - it all ends up as glucose. What makes the difference is what comes along for the ride - is there fiber, protein, vitamins and minerals, etc along to slow down how fast it hits the bloodstream and/or provides a nutritional benefit? I was reading on the Joslin website and some of the "low blood sugar" remedies they list are a glass of milk (lactose) or a glass of fruit juice (fructose) or hard candy (generally just sucrose).

--Deb

Avatar for cl_coldfingers
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Tue, 02-10-2009 - 2:57pm

Ah, Lynn...


iVillage Member
Registered: 07-10-2003
Tue, 02-10-2009 - 7:47pm

I can not say for sure but am pretty sure at least one of a couple grocery stores locally have almond flour.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-10-2003
Wed, 02-11-2009 - 2:14am

Was the almond flour an almond meal flour?

Avatar for cl_maryfrances40
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 02-11-2009 - 9:19pm

Nancy,


I think it is almond meal flour. The package is on the other side of the house. I have been meaning to go and get it and see if it has any recipes on it.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-10-2003
Thu, 02-12-2009 - 1:13pm

the brand they have at festival is Bobs red mill and if you go to


http://www.bobsredmill.com


they have stuff about their products including a whole slew of recipes using that flour!

Pages