Plant milks: that thing we all know we should probably try to drink, and yet, ungghhhh, what a letdown. When I made a stab at veganism at home last year through now ongoing, I found giving up meat is pretty easy, but giving up dairy is H A R D. Vegan cheese and eggs are a letdown, even if I do make a pretty nice mung bean omelette. Plant milks are so flavor-intrusive it’s not worth it. Suffice it to say, I was rooting for Maïzly to be the corn milk hero that the prophecy has foretold.
Aannnddd…sorta? I don’t know as I’d use it for everything, but it definitely fills in some sorely needed slots where it counts. I’m not worrying over it as a glass of milk so much as enjoying some workable latte foam and cereal pourover. That’s the way to go if you want to win my approval. Which it did!
Maïzly is dairy-free, gluten-free, and non-GMO corn. I don’t care much if a product is genetically modified, provided it’s tested and all. I’m way more concerned that we could accidentally wipe out biodiversity worldwide than what frankenfood cells are going to do in the hydrochloric acid bath of my belly. People worrying about what genetic modification is going to do to their bodies are way better off being concerned about what it could do to plants it might hybridize with, and long-term effects born of new characteristics. But that’s a soapbox for another day.