Lately I have tasted my milk and think that it does taste similar to sweetened almond milk (Almond Breeze original).  Ask my toddler and nums taste like just about anything but some top contenders are juice (elderberry) and chocolate.  She likes to drink almond milk too and I suspect she likes it because it tastes a bit like breast milk.  I haven't had rice milk for quite some time but I know I prefer the taste of almond milk to rice milk and I suspect that the almond milk is closer to breastmilk in taste.

Cordelia Merritt  RN BSN IBCLC


On Jul 12, 2010, at 7:41 PM, LACTNET automatic digest system wrote:

> Date:    Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:49:32 -0400
> From:    Marcia McCoy <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: human milk approximation
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've searched the archives without success and hope someone out there can help me.
> 
> I want to do a formula-tasting for my collegues at work. I was surprised how many of them have never tasted formula, although they work day-in and day-out with mothers who're using formula.  The great and variable taste of breastmilk is a good point to bring up with pregnant women. I want the staff to be able to speak from personal experience when they say 'I wouldn't want to eat nothing but formula for months, breastmilk tastes so much better.'
> 
> I'd love to offer human milk as a chaser after the formula, but that's not feasible for many many reasons, so I plan to offer something that I can say tastes similar to breastmilk.  Does anyone have a good recipe for making something that tastes like human milk?  I've seen it compared to almond or rice milk or to melted vanilla ice cream.   Unfortunately I no longer have the ability to make my own samples to compare with any concoctions I may come up with :)
> 
> TIA,
> Marcia McCoy IBCLC


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