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    Milk vs. Milk Alternatives

    You’re at the grocery store for your weekly shopping trip and you get to the milk section. There’s a couple different kinds of milk, and even more kinds of milk alternatives. How do you choose between all of the options? Milk is loaded with 13 essential nutrients: protein, calcium, vitamin A, phosphorus, vitamin D, idoine, potassium, zinc, selenium, B2, B3, B5, and B12. Just eight ounces of milk include 16% of your daily protein, 25% of your daily calcium, 15% of your vitamin D, 50% of vitamin B12- the list goes on. Milk alternatives, such as almond milk, coconut milk, oat milk, flax milk, etc. have little nutritional value. A…