Pick up a carton of Silk®, and you’re sharing in our passion to do some world good. Beyond amazing taste, here are two earth-lovin’ reasons to feel fab about choosing plant-based (at least some of the time).
Yep, cows get thirsty and eat crops that have to be watered too. So making a half gallon of Silk takes way less water than producing a half gallon of dairy milk.*
We’ll pin this one mainly on the cows—and they can’t help it. Creating a half gallon of dairy milk generates a lot more greenhouse gas than a half gallon of Silk does.*
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**50% more calcium and 75% less calories than reduced fat dairy milk. 0g saturated fat and 0g sugar per serving.
Let’s see the full comparision
**50% more calcium and 75% less calories than reduced fat dairy milk. 0g saturated fat and 0g sugar per serving.
*From ISO 14040/44/46 independently reviewed 2020 Life Cycle Assessment based on 2018 product data comparing cradle-to-grave footprint of one half-gallon consumed of average Silk plant-based beverage to US conventional dairy milk. Average Silk footprint from weighted 2018 production of all Silk conventional half gallon beverages, excluding almond-coconut blend.