Taste Test Tuesday: Silk Soymilk Plus Omega-3 DHA
February 14th, 2008
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Over the years I have definitely enjoyed tasting the various Silk soymilk products. They seem to have a way of making soymilk actually taste pretty good. One of their new soymilks has omega-3s added. You know I’m big on smart fats and working them in any way I can (via fish twice a week, ground flaxseed, higher omega-3 eggs, etc.)
This could potentially be one more way of getting them! The carton says an 8-ounce cup contains 400 milligrams of omega-3s. That’s certainly not as good as eating a serving of salmon, but it’s better than nothing and certainly a step in the direction of getting more beneficial omega-3s! The ingredient list shows flax oil as the 5th ingredient and DHA Alagal Oil (DHA derived from algae) as the 8th ingredient. So my next question was, how much ALA (omega-3s from plants) was part of those 400 milligrams and how much was DHA (the longer chain omega-3 famous for being in fish)?
The WhiteWave website cites the product as having 370 milligrams of the ALA type and 32 milligrams of the DHA type. So it’s still a good thing to get those fish servings with 4 ounce servings getting you more in the 3,000 milligrams of omega-3 ballpark, but if you enjoy soymilk, this is a nice way to bump up your plant omega-3s for sure and get a bit of the DHA omega-3s at the same time.
How did it taste?
The color is on the light yellow side, which might turn non-soymilk drinkers off, but it doesn’t faze me since I mostly consume soymilk in my coffee and in my hot or cold cereal. For you though, I drank it straight to test out the taste and it was very nice. That may have something to do with the other top 5 ingredients (organic soymilk, organic evaporated cane juice, calcium carbonate, natural flavors, and the 5th ingredient was flax oil).
1 cup of the milk =
110 calories
7 grams protein
8 grams carbohydrate
5 grams fat
.5 grams saturated fat
0 mg cholesterol
1 g fiber
120 mg sodium
Drinking this milk is a bit like taking a vitamin supplement too because they fortify it with an assortment of favorites:
20% Daily Value vitamin A
35% vitamin C
35% calcium
30% vitamin D
20% vitamin E
And more!
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Technorati Tags: Taste Test Tuesday, soy milk, Silk, omega 3, DHA, healthy diet
Over the years I have definitely enjoyed tasting the various Silk soymilk products. They seem to have a way of making soymilk actually taste pretty good. One of their new soymilks has omega-3s added. You know I’m big on smart fats and working them in any way I can (via fish twice a week, ground flaxseed, higher omega-3 eggs, etc.)
This could potentially be one more way of getting them! The carton says an 8-ounce cup contains 400 milligrams of omega-3s. That’s certainly not as good as eating a serving of salmon, but it’s better than nothing and certainly a step in the direction of getting more beneficial omega-3s! The ingredient list shows flax oil as the 5th ingredient and DHA Alagal Oil (DHA derived from algae) as the 8th ingredient. So my next question was, how much ALA (omega-3s from plants) was part of those 400 milligrams and how much was DHA (the longer chain omega-3 famous for being in fish)?
The WhiteWave website cites the product as having 370 milligrams of the ALA type and 32 milligrams of the DHA type. So it’s still a good thing to get those fish servings with 4 ounce servings getting you more in the 3,000 milligrams of omega-3 ballpark, but if you enjoy soymilk, this is a nice way to bump up your plant omega-3s for sure and get a bit of the DHA omega-3s at the same time.
How did it taste?
The color is on the light yellow side, which might turn non-soymilk drinkers off, but it doesn’t faze me since I mostly consume soymilk in my coffee and in my hot or cold cereal. For you though, I drank it straight to test out the taste and it was very nice. That may have something to do with the other top 5 ingredients (organic soymilk, organic evaporated cane juice, calcium carbonate, natural flavors, and the 5th ingredient was flax oil).
1 cup of the milk =
110 calories
7 grams protein
8 grams carbohydrate
5 grams fat
.5 grams saturated fat
0 mg cholesterol
1 g fiber
120 mg sodium
Drinking this milk is a bit like taking a vitamin supplement too because they fortify it with an assortment of favorites:
20% Daily Value vitamin A
35% vitamin C
35% calcium
30% vitamin D
20% vitamin E
And more!
Related Topics:
Technorati Tags: Taste Test Tuesday, soy milk, Silk, omega 3, DHA, healthy diet