Written by Catherine Saxelby
on Wednesday, 30 July 2014.
Tagged: breakfast, fibre, healthy eating, high fibre, Liquid breakfast, milk, Product Snapshot, review, soy
With claims such as “Fibre made easy” and “One-third of your daily fibre in a glass”, this new milk sounds soooo appealing to anyone who hates 'brown' fibrous food like 'branny', chaff-like cereal, smelly cabbage or heavy dark bread. But how does it stack up for real fibre? And what does it taste like? Really.
I’ll admit upfront that I’m not a fan of soy drinks in general and this one has a pronounced beany flavour and thickish mouth-feel. Maybe it’s coming from the soy bean fibre or the almonds or other fibres - dunno. If you regularly drink soy or oat milks then you probably won’t mind this one but it’s not something I’d buy each week.
Fibre Start comes in a 1 litre tetrapack and is a UHT long-life drink which you’ll find next to the liquid breakfast drinks in the cereal aisle at your supermarket.
Nutrient | Per serve 250 mL | Per 100 mL |
Energy kJ Cal |
625 150 |
250 60 |
Protein, g | 5.3 | 2.1 |
Fat total, g | 3.8 | 1.5 |
Saturated, g | 0.4 | 0.2 |
Trans Fatty Acids, g | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Polyunsaturated, g | 1.2 | 0.5 |
Monounsaturated, g | 2.2 | 0.9 |
Cholesterol, mg | 0.4 | 0.2 |
Carbohydrate, g | 18.5 | 7.4 |
Sugars, g | 10.6 | 4.2 |
Dietary Fibre, g | 10.3 * | 4.1 * |
Sodium, mg | 88 | 35 |
Potassium, mg | 375 | 150 |
Calcium, mg | 165 (21% RDI) | 66 |
* being soluble 2.5% and insoluble 1.6%
Filtered water, plant fibre (4.5%, soybean fibre, corn dextrin, inulin), skim milk powder (3%), cane sugar, almonds (2%), maltodextrin, vegetable oils (sunflower, canola), milk protein concentrate, vegetable gums (460, 466, 407), acidity regulator (332).
Soybean fibre – probably derived from white soy hulls which are used to make invisible fibre white bread.
Corn dextrin – corn or maize yields a product halfway between starch and sugars which is rich in fibre.
Inulin – an industrial fibre extracted from chicory root.
460 = Cellulose microcrystalline – this is a fibre – don't know why it's listed here as a gum.
466 = Sodium carboxymethylcellulose – ditto.
407 = Carrageenan – a high-fibre extract of seaweed that gels and thickens.
Photography by Nicholas Hannah
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