Kareen Mills breaks down Oatly's ingredient list and argues the oat milk is unnecessarily complicated. Beyond oats and water, it contains rapeseed oil, phosphates, calcium carbonate, and various vitamins and additives Mills says aren't needed.
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Let's see what's inside Oatly Oat Milk. It starts with an oat base, which consists of both water and oats. Then low arachid acid rapeseed oil, dipotassium phosphate, which is a food additive often used to regulate acidity and help ingredients mix together smoothly to improve its texture, calcium carbonate, which is added as a source of calcium, tricalcium phosphate, which is another food additive as a source of calcium as well, sea salt, dicalcium phosphate, which is another food additive to provide calcium and phosphorus and to improve the drink's texture and consistency, DHA algal oil, which is a type of oil made from algae, sodium ascorbate, which is a form of vitamin C used as an antioxidant, which is to help preserve freshness and extend the shelf life, tocopherols, which is a form of vitamin E used as an antioxidant, which is to help keep it fresh and prevent it from spoiling quickly, Riboflavin, which is vitamin B2, vitamin A acetate, vitamin D2, and vitamin B12. All you really need is just high-quality oats and water. That's it.