Vegan friendly milk selection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOf course, amidst all this talk of sheep and bees, we mustn\u2019t forget the cows! Most people that eat cereal probably put milk on it and for the vast majority of UK consumers that means cow\u2019s milk. No matter how careful you\u2019ve been to avoid the wrong type of vitamin D or some rogue addition of honey, adding milk to your morning fast breaker is going to render it non-vegan.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, plant-based milk is one area where vegans have lots of choices and, even better, these animal-free alternatives are readily available in all supermarkets. We have the full lowdown on vegan milk substitutes<\/strong> but below we summarise the major options.<\/p>\nWhilst these may seem a little thin at first for those accustomed to drinking dairy milk, especially if you used to drink full fat milk, you\u2019ll soon adapt to them. Many plant-based milk options are also fortified with the vegan-friendly vitamin D2, among other vitamins and minerals.<\/p>\n
\n\n\nMilk<\/th>\n | Suitable for Breakfast Cereal?<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n |
\n\nAlmond<\/td>\n | Great option that lends nuttiness and isn\u2019t as thin as some options<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\nSoy<\/td>\n | Widely available, full of protein and works well, though is thinner than some alternatives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\nOat<\/td>\n | Works well with \u2013 would you believe it?<\/em> \u2013 oat-based cereal options, and has good texture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCashews<\/td>\n | Similar to almond with a slightly different flavour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \nCoconut<\/td>\n | Not the healthiest option and may be too sweet for some, whilst coconut flavour can be strong<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nAlways Check the Ingredients<\/h2>\nAs any vegan knows, strictly adhering to a plant-based diet is not easy but often manufacturers make things even harder than they should be. Much of the furore regarding breakfast cereals is down to the labelling of the various brands.<\/p>\n Many of the biggest and most popular cereals in the UK have been labelled as suitable for vegetarians for a long time. \u201cVegetarian\u201d labelling can be very confusing because, especially where the product would usually be assumed not to contain any animal products, the consumer doesn\u2019t know if it is vegan friendly or simply vegetarian.<\/p>\n Many manufacturers have simply not kept up with the times. Veganism may have been around for a long time and has certainly been relatively<\/em> mainstream for a number of years, but lots of companies that make food and household products are yet to appreciate the needs of vegans. Technically, if something is labelled as simply vegetarian, one ought to assume it is not<\/em> vegan, but there are so many foodstuffs that are labelled this way and are actually vegan, as well.<\/p>\nThis indeed has been the issue with a number of breakfast cereals. Kellogg’s Cornflakes and Rice Krispies were among the major cereals to hit the news for containing lanolin-derived vitamin D. Both of these were marked as “suitable for vegetarians”. With neither expressly stating they were non-vegan, nor having any ingredients that a lay person could reasonably have been expected to realise were animal based, it is unsurprising that many vegans had been eating them.<\/p>\n Moreover, other popular breakfast cereals, such as Nestle’s Shredded Wheat, were labelled in an almost identical way. Shredded Wheat is vegan<\/em> but only carried the vegetarian logo, making it almost impossible for the consumer to know quite where they stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":232,"template":"","tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veganfriendly.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/is_it_vegan\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veganfriendly.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/is_it_vegan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veganfriendly.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/is_it_vegan"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.veganfriendly.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/is_it_vegan\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veganfriendly.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veganfriendly.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veganfriendly.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} | |