Non-dairy milk exercise

Question 1

Understand what a plant based milk substitute is

Answer 1

water extracts of legumes, oil seeds, cereals or pseudocereals, which resemble cows milk appearance.

Question 2

examples of plant based milk

Answer 2

Oat, rice (cereal)
soy, pea (legume)
potato (vegetable)
flax, hemp (seed)
almond, cashew, coconut. (nut)

Question 3

How are plant derived milks made

Answer 3

1. Raw material
2. Extraction (soaked, wet milled/ or dry milled to extract flour)
3. Separation (filtered and decanted)
4. standardised, additives and preservatives added
5. Homogenised
6. heat treatment (UHT/pasteurization)
7. packaged

Question 4

What disease does protein-energy malnutrition result in

- why this occurs consuming plant-based milks

Answer 4

Kwashiorkor disease
- only soy milk has compariable nutrients to cows milk.
Protein is essential to provide the body with amino acids

Question 5

Varying levels of protein content in non-dairy milks.

Answer 5

Cow = around 3.3-3.5g 
Soy = 2.9-3.7g
Oat = 0.4-1
Kamut = 0.7
Amaranth = 0.6
Sesame = 0.6
Quinoa = 1.5
Hemp = 1.3
rice = 0.1
almond =0.5

Question 6

Importance of fortification

Answer 6

Calcium is crucial to build up bone mass during growth stage. (Tightly regulated in the body)
To gain all essential nutrient consumption for health.