ArticleNPJ science of food2023
How animal milk and plant-based alternatives diverge in terms of fatty acid, amino acid, and mineral composition.
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- Plant-based milk powders: technological challenges, nutritional opportunities, and market outlook.BMC chemistry · 2026Review
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- Plant-based analogues to meat and dairy for sustainable food systems.The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society · 2026Review
- The rise of plant-based milk alternatives: exploring nutritional, health, and sustainability impacts.Food chemistry: X · 2026Review
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of inclusion of microalgae in dairy cows' diets on nutrient digestibility, fermentation parameters, blood metabolites, milk production, and fatty acid profiles.Archives animal breeding · 2026Review
- High Sorption Efficiency of Purified Clinoptilolite-Tuff for Aflatoxins B1 and M1: A Case Study in Plant-Based Beverages and Milk.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Evaluation of Plant-Based Milks in Vegan Muffins: Functional, Structural, Rheological and Nutritional Characterization.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Fortification of non-dairy milk with date fruit, mustard seed, and turmeric: nutritional quality, probiotics viability, antimicrobial and antioxidant potentials.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Towards a More Holistic Comparative Assessment of Plant-Based Alternative Beverages and Dairy Milk: A True Cost Accounting Approach.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Microalgae supplementation improves goat milk composition and fatty acid profile: a meta-analysis and meta-regression.Archives animal breeding · 2025Review
- A multicriteria analysis of meat and milk alternatives from nutritional, health, environmental, and cost perspectives.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- A review on nutritional quality of animal and plant-based milk alternatives: a focus on protein.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Review
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Abstract
The decline in fresh milk in the Western world has in part been substituted by an increased consumption of plant-based beverages (PBB). These are often marketed as healthy and sustainable alternatives to milk and dairy foodstuff, although studies have suggested PBB to be of lower nutrient quality. The current study considered different brands of almond-, oat-, rice-, coconut- and soya-based beverages for a comparative analysis and found that they indeed presented lower contents of total protein, lipids, amino acids, and minerals than cow and goat milk. The only exception was given by soya-based beverages which approximated the protein content (3.47% vs. 3.42 and 3.25% in cow and goat milk, respectively) and amino acid composition of animal milk, and also demonstrated high mineral content. The natural presence of phyto-compounds in PBB characterised as antinutrients and their potential to exacerbate the issue of low nutrient quality by lowering bioavailability have been discussed.
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