The insulin effect of oat milk?

(T) #1

Hi,

Me starting on keto has gotten me to question my 6 year old drinking oat milk (1-2 glasses/day of this and/or fat cows milk). I have not found much information if it is healthy or not. Pretty low in carbs. Some say ok GI. Manufacturers say the high magnesium helps enzymes that do something good with insulin.

Does anyone know the effect on insulin?

Should we stop because of the insulin effect or other effect connected to grains? Grains in liquid form feels fishy now.

Cheers,
T

(Holly Easterling) #2

It looks like oat milk has about 24 total/22 net carbs/cup. Coke has about 24 in the same 8 ounces. I’d ditch it.

Our house rule is not to drink carbs, though.

(T) #3

Thanks,

Yeah, I drink water. My 6 year old is not on keto :wink: and milk is very standard here, it would be very hard to stop drinking it over the next years.

She drinks one with 6,6 gram of carbs, 4,1 of those sugar and 0.8 fiber per 100 milliliter. So about 6,6 percent. She drinks maybe two deciliters, so 13,2 carbs from this in one day (minus fiber maybe).

So for her, being 6 and growing and moving and such I view the absolute levels of carbs as ok.

But if the insulin is like candy, or alot larger than ordinary eco fat milk I would stop it. Now it is a good supplement, complement, and substitute to other beverages, especially milk.

Alot of people drink alternatives, oat, rice, soy, coconut etc. It would be nice to know their effect. I personally am convinced that soy and rice drinks are bad for most people.

Thanks again,
T

(Holly Easterling) #4

My kids aren’t keto, either, lol. We have always limited sugared beverages, though. All of it spikes insulin and 100% of my husband’s family had type 2 diabetes, so it has always been on our radar.

You can find the glycemic indexes for foods here:
http://www.glycemicindex.com
It lists whole milk around 40, full-fat soy around 40, oat milk around 70, and rice milk around 80-90.

Your other milk-specific questions would also likely depend on sensitivity to those foods, too, with the exception of soy. Soy protein can apparently affect estrogen metabolism, so I wouldn’t risk that with someone even if they didn’t have a sensitivity. Oats in the US are also produced alongside wheat, so at least here, anyone with a wheat sensitivity risks a reaction or inflammation.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #5

Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at UCSF, says that in his weight loss clinic, the kids are allowed only water or milk, no other drinks. Yes, milk has some carbohydrate, mostly lactose and galactose, but it is mostly protein and fat. For growing child, I don’t think the milk sugars are that much of a problem, especially if the rest of her diet is ketogenic.