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Does anyone make their own almond milk? Do you know how much fat it contains? I usually use 3/4-1 c almonds blended with 4 cups of water, but I strain out all the pulp with a nut milk bag. I am sure there is some fat left, but I can't find any info on how much. It is so delicious, the best plant milk I've tasted.

You know I have been reading up on making our own almond milk as well in order to save some more money on my wife buying it at the store. I found some [url=Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/27659 ... z1nPTcVrlW]information at Livestrong.com[/url] that reads, "One oz. of homemade almond milk provides 15 g of fat, compared to about 10 to 12 g for whole cow's milk. The fat in homemade almond milk is almost all mono- and polyunsaturated, which nutritionists say is the most healthy kinds of fat to eat." If I recall the nutritional information on the back of a store bought brand like Blue Diamond or Pacific Foods its about 25 calories from fat or 25 grams (about 4%). Still being homemade vs processed it must be better to drink.

the package info on almonds says 14 grams of fat in 1/4 cup. that would be 56 grams in the cup you use. and you make almost 5 cups of almond milk so that's more than 11 grams per cup. how much is discarded with the almond roughage I don't know.

Silk Almond Milk has 2.5 fat grams per cup. it has added ingredients:
Ingredients: All Natural Almondmilk (filtered water, almonds), All Natural Evaporated Cane Juice, Calcium Carbonate, Sea Salt, Locust Bean Gum, Sunflower Lecithin, Gellan Gum, d-alpha-Tocopherol (natural vitamin E), Zinc Gluconate, Vitamin A Palmitate, Riboflavin (B2), Vitamin B12, Vitamin D2.

I used to use raw almond butter to make almond milk and one day ran out so just whizzed up some almonds in water to put in AJs sweetcorn/avocado soup. No idea about the fat but it tastes SO much better than bought almond milk in that dish.

Wow!