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Environmentalists’ favored ‘milk’ can’t beat the real thing, study finds

By Matt Lamb

Published August 3, 2023 10:00am ET

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Environmentalists’ favored ‘milk’ can’t beat the real thing, study finds — FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2009, file photo, a shopper looks over the milk aisle at the Hunger Mountain Co-op in Montpelier, Vt. U.S. Reps. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, and other members of Congress are pushing in December 2016 for the Food and Drug Administration to enforce a definition of milk that would not include non-dairy products like soy or almonds. | (Toby Talbot/AP)

Oat, almond, soy, and coconut “milk” often do not measure up to the real thing, according to a University of Minnesota study.

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