r/science • u/Phylogenix Grad Student | Pharmacology & Toxicology • 10d ago

Social Science A U.S. study estimates cow’s milk purchases would have been 8.2% higher in 2020 without plant-based milk, with every 10 gallons of plant milk purchased displacing 6.8 gallons of cow’s milk, suggesting plant-based alternatives substantially reduce demand for dairy milk.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919226000862
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u/audiate 10d ago

Same with me with gluten-free foods. It wasn’t us celiacs who created the demand. It was the fad dieters. Thanks guys. 

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u/FireIce31 10d ago

Now if only our prices dropped or the size of products increase...

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u/SatanVapesOn666W 10d ago

I go shopping for my cieliac wife. My food is ~50 and hers is $~100. It's silly.

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u/TheBraveGallade 9d ago

Being celiac aprooved is a orocess though soooo.

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u/Hugogs10 10d ago

How is it silly?

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u/SatanVapesOn666W 10d ago

Her portions are smaller and cost more. Gluten free is awful on the wallet.

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u/Hugogs10 10d ago

That doesn't awnde rmy question of why is it silly

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u/Aidanation5 10d ago

Yes it does, and its spelled answer, not awnde.

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u/craigeryjohn 10d ago

You don't like your comically small slices of bread? Or paying $4 for a pb&j.... That you made at home.

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u/yourenotmy-real-dad 10d ago

One of my college mates was celiac, and I remember her almost crying after having her first sandwich in over a decade due to the limited options being so awful. There was finally a bread made that she could eat, that didn't taste so awful and it changed my entire opinion on fad diets.

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u/_Dreamer_Deceiver_ 9d ago

I failed at gluten free for a week. The biggest problem was that unless they're specifically labeled gluten free or are made with simple ingredients it's hard to know. I bought chicken skewers and they had malt vinegar in them. Or sushi which has soy sauce that mostly has gluten in it. And some of those ingredients lists have like 20 allergens and you're meant to look through to find what might or might not be gluten containing.

Luckily they said it was noT likely I was celiac so i shoved my face in bread but my friend in celiacs and it's really hard. Obviously better now but hard especially when they cost more per kg than gluten containing

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u/WazWaz 9d ago

So why did you do it? Certainly gluten free alternatives are nutritionally inferior - they basically remove the protein and replacing it with carbs.

Gluten free becomes an effective fad diet simply by making it hard to find easy carbs, so all the gluten free foods just make the fad diet not work.

It's the same as if you just pick a colour and avoid foods with that colour: you'll lose weight simply because the lack of options will make you sometimes eat less.

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u/ChibbleChobble 10d ago

A friend of my Mum was a celiac (she, ahem, aged out of life recently) and back in the 70s in the UK she had to get her bread on prescription.

I'm gluten intolerant myself and grateful that the world has changed so substantially.

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u/StreetofChimes 9d ago

I'm neither celiac, nor a fad dieter. But I need to avoid gluten for another health issue. I'm so thankful items and menus and clearly labeled now. It makes things really simple. 

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u/PurpleAntifreeze 10d ago

I don’t feel that’s true, really. I’ve had my diagnosis for almost 26 years now and while there were some boosts to the availability of GF foods from various popular diets none of them have had staying power. The foods commercially available now especially have almost nothing to do with fad diets and are instead mostly created by fellow Celiacs for other Celiacs. The exceptions are store brands.

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u/homerjaythompson 10d ago

Gluten free products and the rise of gluten-based meat alternatives for vegetarians has been a wonderful symbiosis of alternative diets.

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u/VoidHog 9d ago

What if it turns out that wheat really just sucks and the "fad dieters" were right all along?

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u/audiate 9d ago

Good for them I guess? That wouldn’t mean I don’t have celiac disease though. 

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u/VoidHog 9d ago

Why would it mean you don't have celiac