Fake foods still dominated by milk mimics in Australia
Australia
Published Apr 17, 2022
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Fake milks are more popular with consumers than fake meats. That's the experience of major supermarkets and other food retailers. Their sales data from the last financial year has been compiled by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to chart another small rise in the amount of dairy and meat substitutes being bought in Australia.
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While the annual percentage rise of these plant-based products was another 14 per cent, the numbers are coming off a low base where actual amounts are measured in grams. "The per person apparent consumption of dairy and meat substitutes was 20 grams per day in 2020-21, up a total of 29 per cent from 15 grams per day in 2018-19," ABS health statistics spokesman Paul Atyeo said. Of that 20 grams, 17 grams came from Australians drinking dairy substitutes like almond and soy milk. This official data bears out the claims from the dairy industry that the millions of dollars spent on plant-based and laboratory milk has so far failed to dampen demand for dairy. An explosion of new products which call themselves milk - particularly nuts and soy - are not making the consumer inroads many of their makers claim. The dairy industry says only two per cent of Australian households are regularly buying plant-based milk. The ABS reckoned the 17 grams was equivalent to about half a metric cup per ...
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