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Eredien ([personal profile] eredien) wrote2011-04-12 11:23 pm

Vegan Food Review: Assi Brand Black Bean Soymilk w/Calcium

Assi Brand Black Bean Soymilk with Calcium!

This is awesome stuff. I got it at the local Korean grocery. When I asked if they had soymilk, they showed me a little mini juice-box for a dollar. "Anything bigger?" I asked. "No," he said, and then the lightbulb went on. He gestured to a table, where an entire case of the soymilk juice boxes was sitting there. "Ten dollars," he said. I did a quick count. There were 24 little soy juice boxes. That was 41 cents per serving of soymilk. I was pretty happy, plus you can just drop them in your Giant Red Bag of Doom and go.

It is black bean soymilk, which does not mean it is made with black soy beans, but rather means it is regular soymilk made with black sesame seeds. This means it is slightly sweeter and less "beany" than regular soymilk. It also means it is slightly purple-grey in color, like cereal milk in which the purple froot loops have sat for just a bit too long. The added calcium makes it smooth and also good for vegans. It also contains corn oil, which is not that great, but it's really tasty, and really cheap, and you can cut the lip of the container off for pouring the soymilk over cereal in the morning.

Delicious, nutritious, and cheap.

You may or may not be able to buy it direct from the manufacturer's website, but maybe you can find where you can get it in your area. Also, apparently, it comes in strawberry, chocolate, and banana flavors as well. Maybe the nice guy at the Korean grocery will order me another case specially in chocolate...

[identity profile] thomasyan.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
nutritious

I saw that Denise Minger, who did the impressive critique of Campbell's The China Study is leery of soy, so now I am reading the book The Whole Soy Story. The writing is not as good as Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes and I'm not too sure how good the author is at reviewing the scientific literature, but it does look like there is a lot of evidence and hence cause to be wary of soy.