Milk: Soy vs. Almond vs. Rice

… and the winner is … rice.

Milk is a common beverage and an equally common ingredient, and although it may fit in a vegetarian’s refrigerator, it has no place in a vegan’s.

In comparing three milk alternatives, soy, almond and rice, rice may be the highest in calories, but it is also the lowest in sodium.

Here are the nutritional stats for one cup of each:

Rice Dream Enriched Refrigerated Original:  120 Cal / 80 mg Sodium

Silk Soy Milk Plain:  100 Cal / 120 mg Sodium

Silk Pure Almond Original Almondmilk:  60 Cal / 150 mg Sodium

Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Unsweetened Original:  40 Cal/ 180 mg Sodium

The rice milk is the only one of the mix that has less than one mg of sodium per calorie.

The 1-To-1 Calorie To Sodium Ratio

My doctor has recommended that I keep my sodium intake down to 2,000 mg per day.  As I am also on a 2,000 calorie a day diet, a one to one ratio of calories to sodium is easy to keep track of.