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Drink Your Potatoes: Here Comes Potato Milk, the Newest Plant-Based Alt-MilkAs more and more people turn to plant-based milk in place of the traditional dairy products, milk based on beans like oats and almonds among others are gaining popularity. While oats have been dominating the alt-milk market for quite some time, another challenger is entering the fray. British supermarket chain Waitrose is now sellingDug, a potato-based milk brand from Sweden, in 220 stores.Made in the UK, Dug’s ingredients include pea protein, rapeseed oil and potato. It describes itself as “super sustainable” and has worked with CarbonCloud, an organization dedicated to measuring carbon footprints of food. Potato cultivation requires significantly lower carbon emission than dairy milk. Growing potatoes is also twice as efficient as oats and uses less water than almonds, as per report. The arrival of potato milk signals a growing awareness of the impact that animal farming brings to the environment. Waitrose’s alternative milk buyer, Alice Shrubsall, says sales of milk alternatives had “gone from strength-to-strength over the past few years” and is showing no sign of slowing down. She also notes that customers are becoming more experimental with their choices, signifying a potential for more growth going forward.Images: @dugdrinks/IG#potato #altmilk #Dug #milk

Why Warm Milk Makes You SleepyFeeding a baby milk is one of the best ways to get them to sleep. For adults, it's conventional wisdom that a warm cup of milk will help you get to sleep. The "warm" part may just make you feel comfortable inside, physically and emotionally. But scientists have been picking apart milk to see what's in it that promotes sleep. It was once though that the critical ingredient was tryptophan, but that's not all of it. Milk contains a variety of peptides. Scientists isolated many of these peptides and fed them to mice. One that seems particularly good for promoting sleep is α-casozepine (α-CZP). However, combination of α-CZP and other peptides is even better. Treating the milk protein casein with the digestive enzyme trypsin produces a combination peptide called casein tryptic hydrolysate (CTH) that appears to promote sleep even better than its component parts. Research into isolating the sleep-enhancing chemicals in milk may lead to more natural medications to promote sleep. Or you could just make a cup of hot cocoa, if you are lactose tolerant. Read about this research at the American Chemical Society. -via Real Clear Science#milk #sleep #peptide #chemistry

Epic Oreo Dunk by Football Player Shai RossEdmonton Elk football player Shai Ross showed us how to dunk an Oreo cookie into a glass of milk: in mid-air while doing a backflip! Epic!#oreo #backflip #milk #ShaiRoss #acrobatics