Alpro Barista Foamable Coconut Plant-Based Drink, 1L

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At Daily Barista, our favourite type of dairy-free milk in coffee is coconut milk. It makes your coffee taste creamy and adds a hint of flavour. We especially love it in mochas and iced coffee. Generally, oat milk is widely available, dairy-free and far more sustainable than cow’s milk. Plus, you can easily make it at home!

In fact, it uses more oats than any other oat milk on this list, even Oaty Bruce, with a 14% oat base. The almonds, given their strong flavour, make up for only 3% of the milk, which is also higher than most almond milks. Sunflower lecithin and sea salt are the other two additions. It’s a quite remarkable and minimal blend for a barista milk. The flavour is quite neutral and there is no trace of that chemical aftertaste present in the espresso test. My guess is that it’s the application of heat to certain ingredients that lend plant-based milks like Rebel Kitchen’s and Califia Farms’s barista editions the unappetising artificial flavour. Many independent coffee shops use barista blend plant milk like Oatly or the well respected plant-based barista milk that is available from Califia Farms. Can You Froth Coconut Milk In Nespresso Frother? Soy milk (aka soya milk) can curdle in coffee, especially if you add cold soy milk to very hot coffee. A combination of heat and acidity is what causes it to curdle. Heating it gently or waiting for your coffee to cool a little may help you avoid this issue.It is possible to froth coconut milk, after a fashion. However, the bubbles it creates are bigger than cow's milk bubbles and, in our experience, it can be a bit hit and miss. The barista oat milk has a slightly lower amount of oats than the average, with 8.4%. It also contains sunflower oil, agave fibre, pea protein and sea salt. No acidity regulator here. Rebel Kitchen Barista

The ingredients list begins with the standard amount of oat content — 10% — with rapeseed oil, iodised salt, an acidity regulator and calcium and vitamin supplements rounding up the rest of the composition. Oaty Bruce Like most milk alternatives for coffee, the bubbles produced when steamed do tend to be larger but it is possible to froth cashew milk. Upon frothing, there are tiny bubbles that don’t all go away after tapping. But the foam itself is very good. Unlike many soy milks, it doesn’t produce any dry foam. Crucially, when added to espresso, it doesn’t curdle or separate, which is another common mishap with soy milk in coffee. 4/5 Minor Figures Cold brew has its own unique taste profile and brings out something quite different from the milk when compared to espresso-based cold drinks. Iced filters have a lovely acidity but don’t make for a great conductor for milk-testing. This tastes very interesting. It’s fruity and citrusy, with very prominent notes of grapefruit zest. Initially, it’s very acidic, but it gets better as you drink it.

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Sure, it acts like it with the consistency and foaming. But disappointingly, Rebel Kitchen’s barista milk has that artificial, synthetic undertone that I tasted in Califia Farms’s oat milk. Alt-milk is enjoying a wave of popularity it has never known before. In the UK, The Vegan Society predicts the value of dairy alternatives will double by 2025. Plant-based milk grew thrice as much as traditional dairy in the US last year, penetrating two in five households. Alpro’s Barista for Professionals range has four milks: oat, almond, soy and coconut. I chose the latter for the test as it was recommended to me by the brand.