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Oct. 3rd, 2019 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynTurns out my local grocery store sells Elmhurst Milked Cashews. It's the only Elmhurst plant milk they sell so far as I know.
I do not know that I would necessarily think it makes coffee taste like something Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson would drink*, but it tastes pretty good in my coffee, and it gives a decently cream-like mouthfeel without bringing cholesterol into the picture. Which is something, even if it's still-
*pauses*
*squints at nutrition label*
*squints more*
Huh.
Okay, I take back what I was about to say about the fat levels being worse than cream. The nutrition info on the Milked Cashews container says 'calories 130, total fat 10 g / 13% Daily Value', but what I hadn't spotted was the line that said 'serving size 8 fl oz'. The label for heavy cream says total fat of around 5 grams but that's for a serving size of one tablespoon. If I use the cashews in a manner consistent with the use of cream rather than drinking it by the glass like milk, it's suddenly a LOT better of a deal; I need to divide those nutrition numbers by 16 to make them comparable. Yeah, I am okay with this.
*I once saw an article at some fitness magazine's website with Mr. Johnson's menu for a typical, non-prepping-for-anything-specific week. The amount of codfish that man eats in order to get enough protein for his specific musculature is huge. I can only assume that a beverage that tastes like something he would drink is a beverage that tastes like someone dumped about half a cup of liquid protein (possibly with vanilla flavoring) into it.
I do not know that I would necessarily think it makes coffee taste like something Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson would drink*, but it tastes pretty good in my coffee, and it gives a decently cream-like mouthfeel without bringing cholesterol into the picture. Which is something, even if it's still-
*pauses*
*squints at nutrition label*
*squints more*
Huh.
Okay, I take back what I was about to say about the fat levels being worse than cream. The nutrition info on the Milked Cashews container says 'calories 130, total fat 10 g / 13% Daily Value', but what I hadn't spotted was the line that said 'serving size 8 fl oz'. The label for heavy cream says total fat of around 5 grams but that's for a serving size of one tablespoon. If I use the cashews in a manner consistent with the use of cream rather than drinking it by the glass like milk, it's suddenly a LOT better of a deal; I need to divide those nutrition numbers by 16 to make them comparable. Yeah, I am okay with this.
*I once saw an article at some fitness magazine's website with Mr. Johnson's menu for a typical, non-prepping-for-anything-specific week. The amount of codfish that man eats in order to get enough protein for his specific musculature is huge. I can only assume that a beverage that tastes like something he would drink is a beverage that tastes like someone dumped about half a cup of liquid protein (possibly with vanilla flavoring) into it.
