It is hard to justify paying for a litre of wet nuts, when you can get so much nutrition from a litre of milk, the CEO of the National Dairy Council has said. Emma Walls said that sales of dairy alternatives have peaked and are now retreating.
It is hard to justify paying for a litre of wet nuts, when you can get so much nutrition from a litre of milk, the CEO of the National Dairy Council has said.
Emma Walls said that sales of dairy alternatives have peaked and are now retreating.
“I think there’s a reason why it has retreated and I think it’s very difficult for those plant-based alternatives to compete with dairy from a taste point of view, certainly from a nutrition point of view and from a cost point of view.
“Particularly when you’re a consumer in a cost-of-living crisis and every euro counts, I think it’s quite hard to justify a litre of wet nuts when you can get so much calcium, iodine, phosphorus, potassium, protein and carbohydrates from a delicious litre of milk. Now I would say that, I’m entirely captured when it comes to dairy and I acknowledge that, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s twice the nutrition for half the volume and half the price,” she told the Irish Farmers Journal this week.
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