As cows’ milk is a major component of non-breastfed infants’ diets, used almost universally in infant formula as the most common breast milk substitute, it has been scrutinized as a possible trigger of type 1 diabetes. An international meeting devoted to the subject of cows’ milk and type 1 diabetes concluded in 1999 that there was nothing unique about cows’ milk and that a number of different food types may be diabetogenic.
Full fat, whole cream, double toned milk – if the different types of dairy milk were not enough to confuse you, today you also have nut-based and plant-based milks. As the vegan community grows in number, almond milk and soy milk have also seen a surge in popularity.
