Everyone’s favorite nutrition diva Monica Reinagel has addressed a key question for vegans: should they drink soy milk, rice milk, hemp milk, oat milk or almond milk?

When I was vegan, I had trouble choosing. For a while I went with the default of unsweetened soy milk, until I decided to cut back on my unfermented soy. I switched over to rice milk, which tasted sweet and delicious without added sugar, but that was because it was so sugary on its own. It also didn’t provide much in the way of nutrients.

I tried hemp milk a couple of times but never got that into it, I think because it was hard to find unsweetened hemp milk at that time. I never bothered too much with oat milk; if I was going to use a fake milk, it would often be for oats, so that would have been redundant, like using puffin milk on Puffin cereal.

I was a huge fan of quinoa milk, mainly because I liked the idea of it. I bought way too much of it when I was in Prague and the vegetarian grocery store Country Life had it on sale. But I never saw it anywhere else.

I eventually settled on almond milk as the best milk replacement. It tasted good without having any obvious flaws like a lot of calories from sugar.

Was I right?

Monica refuses to single one out as objectively the best (she does say rice milk is objectively the worst), but she seems to favor soy and hemp milk, with almond milk being a strong contender.

I wonder if drinking hemp milk instead of almond milk would have saved my veganism.