In a quest to futher avoid additives, yet have moist baked goods, creamy smoothies and a delicious cup of tea, I researched nut milks like mad until I found some might work for my SIBO diet.
It was harder than I thought. I had been using flax milk in my tea, smoothies and in oatmeal before SIBO and never even realized it had some of the additives that you should avoid on the SIBO specific diet, especially gums and tapioca starch. Almond milk is the low FODMAP nut milk of choice for SIBO if you tolerate nuts, but most store bought almond milks – even some that are “pure” – have carrageenan and gellan gum added in low percentages. Those additives are illegal on the diet.
I found the only way to get truly pure almond milk is to go to a juicery and get cold pressed almond milk. Sometimes it is sweetened with date paste and dates are high FODMAP but that didn’t seems to bother me. Some health food stores I have visited in the UK sell milk that is just pure almonds, water and vanilla. I did find one company who sold plain unsweetened almond milk to major stores, but only in the Washington DC area. Anyone else out there who has found some in major retailers? Please let me know!
Cheers to being additive free!