Aimed at vegan consumers and adding to the boom that this type of product has had in recent years, the Mercadona's new vegetable drink comes to bring more variety. Because in this category you can already find various alternatives that allow you to substitute the traditional animal milk. But what ingredients do these options really take? substitutes? Below we analyze whether or not they are worth choosing, in terms of flavorful and nutritious, taking advantage of the novelty that is already in the supermarkets of Juan Roig.
Vegetable drinks, what are they like?
Until 27 liters of cow's milk per person in Spain have disappeared from habitual consumption since the beginning of the current millennium. Among the reasons are the alternatives of plant origin that, especially in recent years, have been gaining even more ground while the market continues to grow. Veganism. To this must be added the consumers who are lactose intolerant or gluten. But, if we focus on vegetable drinks, their importance in the basket increases every day. With the claim to be from soybean, oats, almonds or rice they manage to captivate the public.
However, if you read the label of these types of products you can see that they have different ingredients (each worse, on many occasions), so be careful with this. Without being milk as such, they are usually made with water and other additions that provide the flavor concrete. Now if you want it to be healthy, the product must contain at least one 12% of that main ingredient.
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This is Mercadona's new vegetable drink
La Mercadona's new vegetable drink is hazelnuts and rice, so it places the leading role twice in both foods. Contains a 10% of the dried fruit for a 3% of cereal, so the sum would give a percentage that falls within a healthy option. In addition, it does not have added sugars but it does stabilizer, aroma and a small amount of salt. Light in calories, what gives you the most are carbohydrates. To a lesser extent, there is fiber and protein.
Lovers of these vegetable drinks usually take them as substitutes for cow's milk, but the truth is that the latter contains more nutrients. From the minerals (phosphorus and calcium) until Vitamins, going through a lower amount of fat and a higher amount of protein. Therefore, experts recommend consuming these non-dairy substitutes in a balanced diet, as food complementary or extra. Do you usually take them like that? Do you think they are better than traditional milks?
