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There's unsweetened (and unflavored) soy milk. Don't know about unsweetened vanilla soy.

For the unsweetened unflavored variety, my local Whole Foods carries Silk, 365, and/or Earth Balance. All three have about 1-2 g sugar per cup, instead of 6-8g in normal (sweetened) soy milk. Some other kinds of milk are worse. I used to know someone who drank goat's milk and some other powdered milk that had 11g and 12g sugar per cup, respectively.

My cereal is moderately low on sugar already (6g per serving among 30g carbs), and it took some getting used to it with low-sugar soy milk, but I can't go back now. If I have to use "normal" (really: sweetened) soy milk, which is still only 6 or 7g sugar per cup, I can feel the sugar rush and it makes me mad.

It's made me hypersensitive to (added) sugar in most foods. I recently tried drinking some sweetened almond milk and I couldn't drink it. It was awful.




For my money, Almond's unsweetened flavour profile wins hands down. It has 1/2 the calories of "unsweetened" Silk. Here are some data for those interested in the comparison. The issue is that most people don't understand what they are drinking.

Almond milk has 60 cal per 12 oz,

Vanilla Silk has 150, "Unsweetened" silk has 120.

Coca Cola has ~145

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http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-blue-diamond-almond-b...

http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-silk-soymilk-vanilla-...

http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-silk-soymilk-unsweete...

http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-coca-cola-classic-i98...




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