Research suggests pea milk emits a fraction of the planet-warming gases of cow’s milk production and is more nutritious than most other plant-based milks.

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I have yet to see commercially available pea milk where I live.

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Do we have to call it pea milk though?
- No. In fact, I hope the manufacturers store it in testicle-shaped bottles.
  
  I only drink golden showers brand
- Essence of pea
- Pilk
- I already don't call it that.
- I prefer a different spelling?
- Piss
- White pea juice.
- No, we should call it pea mammry fluid from a different species.
  
  mammary secretions.
- Just call it fake milk made from peas
- better than petite pea milk.
I love drinking pea
- Try showering in it. The experience is golden.
- pea milk is the only cow milk alternative i am willing to drink. all the other immitations are unbearable..oat, almond etc... yuck
  
  For cereal and similar breakfast applications, I quite like oat milk. It does have a strong oat flavor though.
It's great if you can handle its pea-ness.
- My kids love drinking pea.
- ROSEBUD
  
  This is exactly the reference I was making
Does it have qualities that would make it useful replacement in cooking and baking, or is it a drink alternative? The archive link isn't working for me, so sorry if this is in the article. I'm really curious.
- Or the real question, does it make cheese?
  
  Pea cheese, just what I need
  
  Don't. Please.
Well of course. Peas are a lot smaller than cows and will eat and fart a lot less.
Yeah if people want this to catch on you can't call it pea milk.
Peas are a type of pulse. So let's call it pulse milk that sounds a lot more appetizing :>
- Peas are just seeds, so call it seed milk.
You aren't going to pea in my milk!
Hell yeah, give peas a chance!
It’s not really milk.
We should just call it pea. Already reminds us of a liquid.
- Ahh yes give me your finest cup of pea.
  Tea sir, what kind may I ask?
  Heather, scum. I said pea... Do you not understand?
we don't have data for its water usage though?
Oat milk is pretty good. I recently switched over to it from soy milk and it's high in calcium and all the other nutrients. Very creamy.
Edit: damn that's batshit crazy, I should give pea milk a try.
Here's the comparison table of the nutrients in the article
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10504201/table/Tab2/
The colour of it makes me feel a bit noxious. Maybe I shouldn't have eaten that candy snake I found in my jacket pocket just before jumping into bed.
- Do you mean nauseous?
  
  Yes. I was relying on autocorrect to help me out and after not finding the correct spelling after half a dozen attempts I gave up in favour of whatever that word I used is. I am on my side, half asleep.
  
  Do you mean nauseated?
I've had pea milk, doesn't seem too rare in the UK. It was nice enough, maybe slightly watery compared to oat (my go to) but that could just have been the brand.
The comparisions are interesting, but also kind of demonstrate the futility of debating between plant based milks. There's a clear worst candidate here, and it isn't plant based. If your thinking of switching, choose your favourite, soy might be the second worst but it's significantly less than half the emmisions of cow milk.
- I want to use oat milk but I'm having a hard time getting used to the difference in taste to cow milk
  
  My tip would be, give one of them a go for a set time period, like a month!
  It's so interesting how the brain gets used to stuff, I did have the same thing when I swapped, but now cow milk tastes kind of funky when I do have it. You might find that after a week or so, you end up preferring it (you might also find you hate it, but at least you can say you gave it a go when you swap back, haha!)
pea juice*
peas do not have nipples.
- I have nipples. How do I get milk out of them?
  
  hormones?
  
  You've just got to drink a lot and then suck really really hard
  
  Manual stimulation 3x a day for a few months
- Now I'm thinking about other options. Tomato milk. Grape milk. Orange milk. Lemon milk.
- Gonna have to start calling stuff "peanut spread" and "hot assorted meat trimmings"
  Also, we've been using the word milk to include plant milk since the year 1200
- Not how language works... Like, there are no hard lines, its just whatever can communicate the idea you want to communicate. You really don't want to go down the road of demanding coherent and strict definitional categories for all words, and if you don't demand it for all words, then you're being a pedant for fully arbitrary reasons (the worst kind of pedantry).
When does solunt green start?
- Oh, that was a promotional flavor a few years back.
  
  Whoa I haven't seen chewable Soylent. I wanna try one of those. See if it actually fills my stomach unlike the drinks. Couldn't actually use the drinks as a meal replacement, since it did nothing to not make me feel hungry.
I had some pea chocolate milk and it was pretty okay. Think almond and oat taste better but it's not the worse (that's soy).
- Almond and Oat have that "nutty" taste that works well with chocolate.
  i find oat curdles a little bit when used in hot drinks though. Personally, i'm a soy boy
What's the comparative energy usage for the production process?
This seems to show that coconut milk is better and uses barely any water. Also, it's coconut milk, which is lovely.
My fiance has food allergies, including dairy & tree nuts (like almonds). Once she discovered pea milk she started making mashed potatoes again. It turns out coconut milk doesn't make a great choice. I don't remember why she doesn't like soy milk.
It's an ...acquired taste
as the graph says, cow milk wins in both the greenhouse gas emissions and water usage metrics.
- Not sure if this is meant as sarcastic?

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