- Hi, I'm Parris, and today I am pushing the limits
of what can be considered milk.
I saw on TV that there's a new product
made from pea protein, the vegetable peas,
that they've turned it into milk.
And I thought, okay, I like peas,
but I don't know that I want milk that tastes like peas.
Does it taste like peas?
They didn't say, so I went out and found some to try.
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What do you think of when you see the name Ripple?
Well, you might think of waves in a pond
when you drop in a pebble, but what came to mind for me,
especially with a drink, if you remember a show called
Sanford and Son, the drink of choice of the father (laughs)
was a fortified wine product, very inexpensive,
called Ripple, and that's all I can think of with this name.
But if you don't remember that,
then probably this is an elegant name for you.
This is the original version of Ripple, it has 100 calories
per serving, and the ingredients are, first of all, water,
pea protein, then cane sugar, and then sunflower oil.
And here's a vanilla Ripple, which makes me think of
Fred Sanford combining Ripple and Champagne
to make Champipple.
Now they advertise it's 40% less sugar than flavored milks,
which I guess, since it's vanilla, it's a fair comparison,
but they're comparing it to chocolate milk.
If you're gonna compare yourself to chocolate milk,
you better taste pretty darn good, ask any kid.
Now I picked these up for just under five dollars each
at our local healthier food store called Sprouts,
and they also, interestingly, have these at Target,
and they didn't have them at Whole Foods.
My control that I'll be comparing them to
is this new product from Silk.
It's a protein milk, so it's almond milk, cashew milk,
mixed with pea protein.
I do like my almond and cashew milk,
I really like the flavor, my concern is,
I don't know that I want milk that tastes like peas.
(liquid pouring)
So the protein nut milk.
(inhales)
Doesn't smell at all like milk (laughs)
but you get used to that.
I can taste the nut flavors, and also vanilla.
The taste drinking it right from the glass is okay,
and it tastes fine on cereal, it's easy to forget
that it's not actual milk.
Let's see how these two do.
Gonna start out with the vanilla version of this,
'cause it's the most comparable, I think.
(liquid sloshing)
It's not green!
Actually, it says it's made from yellow peas.
What are those?
Peas, I'm thinking sweet green peas.
Let's see how Ripple pours.
It's darker than that.
Yes, it's definitely darker than the protein nut milk.
(sniffing)
I'm getting no smell at all.
This at least had some scents of the vanilla
and a little bit of nut smell.
All right, here goes the taste.
(swallows)
(sighs)
Hmm, all I can think is oil and sugar.
(smacks lips)
(slurps)
(swallows)
(sighs)
Tastes like vegetables.
If I didn't like the vanilla, (laughs)
I don't know how I'm gonna like the original even more,
but I'm gonna give it a try.
And a quick shout-out to one of our longtime viewers,
Darcy, who actually made these coasters for me,
they are really coming in handy, thank you.
This is about the same color as the vanilla.
Well, I guess the vanilla shouldn't change the color,
but I would want it to be a little bit
lighter color if it's vanilla.
All right, (sighs)
the original.
(smacks lips)
Hmm.
Almost taste the peas.
(slurps)
Peas, with an oil chaser.
Not gonna vote for the original.
The vanilla is definitely better
because it hides that vegetable flavor more,
but, and here's an interesting thing I just noticed,
that these advertise eight grams of protein per serving.
And that's the strong suit of the peas,
is it has that protein.
A lot of people are interested in that,
so you stay feeling fuller longer,
and it can be lower-calorie,
if the third and fourth ingredients aren't sugar and oil.
Now this, these are both eight grams of pea protein
per serving, this one, which has the pea protein
added to, basically, a mix of almond and cashew milk,
is 10 grams of pea protein per serving.
Maybe as they were developing the Ripple drink,
they're adding different ingredients,
and they put in eight grams of pea protein
and they tasted it and they said,
without something more to cover up the taste,
we can't add any more than eight.
But this has got those other nut flavors,
so with this, there's more pea protein in it,
and I barely taste it.
I wasn't a big fan of this new drink before,
I really like the almond coconut milk,
that's a really good combination,
but now, having seen when you add the pea protein (laughs)
what the milk will taste like,
now I'm thinking this is pretty good.
Well, I'm set for dairy alternatives for a while, aren't I?
I'll put a link to the Ripple product
down below this video so you can read more about it,
and it does sound really good on the website
and you think, hey, that could be really great,
and it could, having that pea protein in the drink,
but I think they need to find a little more
masking material to make it more palatable.
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