Silk Soy Milk Vs. Edensoy Soy Milk
Soy Milk has gained popularity in the United States, as health practitioners, researchers, and nutritionists tout the benefits of soy. Soy milk is made from soybeans; water is added to the crushed beans or to simple soy flour to make a paste, and the soymilk is then drained from added water blended in. The soy milk must be cooked; raw soybeans contain a chemical that is toxic. In parts of Asia a glass of soy milk is considered to be a basic meal rather than a beverage with a meal. Because soy milk has approximately the same amount of protein as cow's milk, it's considered to be an excellent milk substitute for people with dairy intolerance, people who are vegans by choice, or to add a variety to one's diet.
Over time, as we adapted to a life without cow's milk product, the two different brands acquired distinct tastes. Silk Soy Milk vs. Edensoy? Edensoy pulled ahead of Silk Soy Milk as time passed. Our kids liked it better, and especially enjoyed the Edensoy Rice + Soy variety. Edensoy has a richer taste than Silk Soy Milk as well; it is creamier, doesn't taste as sugary, and bakes very well in cakes and muffins.
However, Edensoy does not blend well in coffee. Time after time, every week, the newly-opened Edensoy quart of soymilk would be approached with hope. And every time the Edensoy soy milk was poured into the coffee, it coagulated and turned into little floating pieces of curdled soymilk. This was not my idea of tasty, and even worse--the caffine deprivation was painful and torturous.
Silk Soy Milk, however, did not curdle in milk. Ironically, Silk Coffee Creamer did--but not the well-known red half-gallon carton, nor did the vanilla-flavored Silk Soy Milk in the standard blue carton. Over time, Silk Soy Milk gained in popularity, as coffee drinking won out over Edensoy's superior baking and drinking qualities.
And then there's cost. A half gallon of Silk Soy can be found for $2.99. Two quarts of Edensoy cost a minimum of $4.38. The price different is stark, and for a family on a budget, Silk Soy Milk really pulled ahead of Edensoy.
After a while our sons began to prefer "the red milk" over Edensoy soy milk as well. Our older son, then four years old, would choose Silk Soy Milk when we traveled to the grocery store and made our selections. Edensoy, however, had convenient soy milk boxes for road trips with the kids. Within a year, Silk Soy Milk added their soy milk boxes to the fray; consumers now have the ability to buy both brands in single-serve soy milk boxes, although Silk Soy Milk's option is considerable cheaper than Edensoy's.
Silk Soy Milk passes the baking test, the kid drinking test, and the coffee test. In addition, national coffee chain Starbuck's uses vanilla-flavored Silk Soy Milk in their soy lattes, and customers can order a glass of soy milk at their stores as well.
For taste, baking, and coffee, Silk Soy Milk easily wins the contest vs. Edensoy. While the Silk Soy Milk brand is more prevalent in the U.S., it also provides the needed smoothness and creaminess to my morning cup of coffee.
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16 Comments
Post a CommentYou know the old saying 'you get what you pay for'? Well, that's just as true with Silk soy milk. The processing used to create Silk produces hexane - a chemical most well know as a by product of gasoline refining - and, I'm sure, in no way good for people. Edensoy, on the other hand, costs more because it's more labor intensive to avoid the hexane by-product in the milk. Like I said, you get what you pay for. Makes no sense to drink soy for health reasons if the soy is tainted with hexane. Another stunning example of the mainstream trying to rip off "real" health food and pawn it off on the masses for profit while engendering no health benefits at all.
So many times i try to swallow Silk down with acceptance, but then ugh!it's so sl-idy yeelch! I end up having to rush through the swallow so i won't be aware of it's consistency. also Edensoy can be sweet if you eat it with certain stuff. it's just not thick like Silk. I'll tell you what's silky, Edensoy!
i made muffins with soy milk SILK, i did the recipe as directed except for substituting silk for milk, the muffins came out flat and did not rise as should and also the centers of the muffins were not done, after 2 doz made and cooled i cld not put back in the oven, also i made with canned pineapple and other with strawberries/fresh and also fresh blueberries and cocnut flakes in all the muffins with each kind of fruit like the recipes siad, maybe an enzyme in milk has different reaction than the soy???
I whole heartedly agree with everyones comments below about Eden brand Soy Milk!. Eden is far superior over Silk and Eden Soy Brand received a 5 star rating from the Cornucopia Institute. NaturalNews was a contributing source to the Cornucopia Institute's new soy product scorecard that reveals the astonishing lack of integrity by some of the most famous soy product companies in the world. At the same time, this report also tells you which soy companies have integrity! Read it yourself to learn about the winners and losers in the soy industry: cut and paste the link below...
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Silk brand soy contains hexane and gets their soybeans from China!!!
While Eden Soy comes from Organic Family Farms in the U.S.A. and does not use Hexane.!!
One of my concerns with drinking dairy was the carrageenen used in cow's milk. When I made the decision to switch to soy, I tried to eliminate that chemical from my diet as much as possible - its found in so many things because its used as a thickening agent. Silk has carrageenen in it. Edensoy does not (neither does west soy brand) and the consistency has not suffered for it - also it tastes delicious. I have also been able to fins edensoy cheaper at health food stores than silk is at my local whole foods. Since I want my soymilk to have no extra chemicals, I opt for edensoy.
I have been trying to get used to soy milk. I've tried Silk four or five times, but always end up finally throwing it out. It always left this funny after taste that I never got used to. I just tried the EdenSoy, and I am so happy that I finally did. It's been in my fridge for a month waiting for me to get the up the nerve to try it. It is wonderful, it tastes like regular milk, and it doesn't have that sweet taste like Silk does.
I do agree that the chocolate flavor SIlk is really good. Whenever I drink it, I forget about real chocolate milk which is also very tasty.
i just wanted to mention what the comment box couldn't show, and its that i definitely choose Edensoy over silk because of the last reasons mentioned. then i stated that each time i tried to warm up to silk's difference, i just couldn't bear another frothy slither of Silk's texture down my esophagus, and i eventually start to feel sick. its just sooo thick, and that kinda supports Victoria W.'s fact about the carrageenan as well. So sorry Silk, Edensoy's got it. However Silk does provide a good flavor balance to hot cereals that may be too sweet from honey,so i will give Silk that credit. other than that, Silk just doesn't qualify as real milk in my opinion. There's something about it that has to be eliminated so it can seem like wholesome vegetarian milk. Now if Edensoy could juuust cost less, i'd be even more satisfied.
I lloooooooove Edensoy. No other milk can separate me from it, especially real cow's milk. . i hate the stuff. i'm glad my parents got me hooked on EdenSoy at a young age and off of drinking cow's milk which tasted like glue or spit to my 5-year-old tastebuds. Cow's milk really isn't good for people anyways with all the lactose intolerance, acne, and other stuff occuring from dairy. Edensoy is like the perfect substitute for milk too, because it still has a light, creamy, and of course "milky" type of texture, and its better because it has actual flavor and natural, ingredients nurtured and picked to mix at the right time so Edensoy can taste its best. its ingredients are of more nutritional value too and you never get lactose intolerant from it. Thats a BIG encore right there. Its not all mixed with too much chemical and formula like Silk seems to be either. Silk tastes almost close to real milk because of its frothy texture, and its flavor tastes more artificial which is why i de
I used Silk is Soy for many years until I tried EDEN SOY, and I am not going back to Silk is SOY. Yes, it's true that EDEN SOY is way more expensive, but I would rather pay more for a wholesome SOY MILK packaged with eseential vitamins,NOT sweetned with EVAPORATED CANE JUICE, which is another name for refined sugar. EDEN SOY tastes better and it's better for you.