why most plant-based milk products (soy, oat, almond) are still white like cow’s milk?
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Because these are plant based liquids that we happen to label as milk because they naturally resemble milk and therefore can be marketed as a substitute. Like if almond milk was purple, we probably wouldn’t call it almond milk. It looks like milk and it’s kinda creamy so it fits. In reality none of these actually taste like cows milk.
I’m not sure I understand the question
People getting hung up on the “actually soy milk was called milk in china for centuries since the Eastern Han☝️🤓” or whatever.
The point is, to answer OPs question, we called them milks because they coincidentally look like milk and some people like them in their coffee or cereal or homeopathic milk enemas or whatever. We don’t do a lot to make it look like milk. If oranges secreted white juice, we’d probably call it orange milk instead of juice
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