Coconut milk vs 1% milk

Nuka_Gina

I'm such a dairy fanatic that switching to soy milk really helped me. I like substituting coconut oil in my baking but I've never tried the milk before. Coconut oil is great in shakes, too. Sooo creamy!

VitaSh

I am very partial to Cashew milk at the moment, the unsweetened version is surprisingly creamy and very low in calories cup for cup. My next favorite is a blend of almond and coconut milk that Silk also makes (the blend tastes best imo). I put both either in cereal, coffee, baking, anything really. I've lost the taste for regular milk now. I get way more than enough protein with my fish heavy diet and protein powder (protein powder tastes delicious with these milks as well).

Whole regular milk makes me want to vomit, so for each their own, go figure lol. I can only deal with whole milk as an addition to coffee (a tbsp) and no more.

stevencloser

alexsondra34 wrote: »

http://bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/ingredient-focus-coconut-milk

http://thepaleomom.com/2012/04/recipe-homemade-coconut-milk.html

you cannot compare store bought processed stuff with homemade ever, if you enter homemade coconut milk on the food search you'll see it has 67 calories per 200ml, as it is mostly water and if you want you can even skim the solidified cream and it will be even lower, i use a ratio of 1/3 coconut to 3 parts water.

And for the people who takes a fence at my comment that milk is not good for you ,do your research before you start waving your fists in anger http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2003/dec/13/foodanddrink.weekend, facts are facts, it is your body though so do what you want with it.

Calling an 11 year old opinion article with 0 links to sources facts is a bit of an exaggeration.

belimawr

neanderthin wrote: »

They (So Delicious Brand) referred to animal saturated fat as sinister. wow. Also it's not just coconut milk, it a formula and probably why it's lower in calories and fat. Basically it's a coconut type drink and not actually just coconut milk. Mystery solved.

Yes, looking at the previous poster's statement I agreed they're likely the same thing.

I had never seen that statement by So Delicious. Had I known about that I'd have never bought it, even on sale. A company that makes such a statement is just asinine. Add on top of that, a misleading name for the product, last product I buy of theirs.

amusedmonkey

OdesAngel wrote: »

alexsondra34 wrote: »

http://bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/ingredient-focus-coconut-milk

http://thepaleomom.com/2012/04/recipe-homemade-coconut-milk.html

you cannot compare store bought processed stuff with homemade ever, if you enter homemade coconut milk on the food search you'll see it has 67 calories per 200ml, as it is mostly water and if you want you can even skim the solidified cream and it will be even lower, i use a ratio of 1/3 coconut to 3 parts water.

And for the people who takes a fence at my comment that milk is not good for you ,do your research before you start waving your fists in anger http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2003/dec/13/foodanddrink.weekend, facts are facts, it is your body though so do what you want with it.

So when you say "homemade" did you actually husk the brown coconut yourself, as well as grind it? Or did you buy dry pre ground coconut from the store. This Pacific Islander would like to know.

Yeah.. that's just watered down coconut, akin to mixing milk with water and calling it low fat. Traditionally coconut milk is made with just enough water to facilitate "milking" the natural liquids out of minced coconut flesh. Either way, if you like your coconut milk that's fine, but fear mongering is not.

liftingandlipstick

belimawr wrote: »

Alatariel75 wrote: »

HUGE difference between coconut milk and coconut water. Coconut milk is hugely rich, creamy and very high in calories. Used in a lot of Asian cooking, particularly Thai. very coconutty. Coconut water is just weird.

Nope, not coconut water. I had the So Delicious brand coconut "milk" as I wanted to give it a try on sale. I stand by my statement, it has a hint of flavor, but really not that much IMO.

Looking at the package however and your statement, while they call it milk, it may in fact fit your definition as water, as it is certainly not high in calories - forty per one cup serving.

This. Maybe it's the brand, because I tried both their unsweetened, and vanilla unsweetened and it very much tasted like water. Or slightly vanilla flavored water. Not at all coconutty and not at all creamy like I want out of my milk.

Keep in mind, most grocery stores carry two kinds of coconut milk: the So Delicious/Silk etc in a carton that are meant to be a milk replacement, and fail miserably, and Thai Kitchen/etc in a can that are meant to cook with. The milk replacement ones are typically under 50 cals per cup, the cooking ones (unless you specifically buy the light version) are more like 200. While I love cooking with coconut milk (and I do buy the light version), I can't see drinking it straight.

monikker

I eat enough other coconut products to get the benefit of coconut that coconut milk seems kinda useless and expensive to me. I drink milk mainly for the protein - coconut milk has none. So I drink either dairy milk or, now that I'm in a caloric deficit phase and want fewer carbs, I drink unsweetened organic soy milk. Very tasty, almost matches the protein of dairy, and has 1/3 the carbs of dairy.