SoL Sunflower Milk, Plus GIVEAWAY

A while back, I wrote a post on Nondairy Milks for the Pantry Basics series. I mentioned that I had purchased a carton of SoL sunflower milk, but that I hadn’t tried it yet. And I promised to report back. Shortly after that post, I was contacted by the company and they kindly agreed to participate in a giveaway of their products (see below). Thanks, Sunrich Naturals! SoL Sunflower Milk from Sunrich Naturals is made from sunflower kernels and comes in unsweetened, original, and vanilla flavors. It is vegan and gluten-free. Sunflower seeds have natural antioxidant properties and are high in important vitamins and minerals. SoL’s website says that sunflower milk is great for a variety of uses, so I put that to the test and I’m going to give you my honest review.

I tried the unsweetened sunflower milk, which is my standard for all nondairy milks. I try to avoid the added sweeteners that are generally in original and vanilla nondairy milks. Plus, I feel like the unsweetened is a good clean way to assess what the milk actually tastes like on its own.  The sunflower milk actually tastes a bit like sunflower seeds. It’s nutty and rich and the consistency is good. The color is a bit greyish, which is slightly off-putting at first, but sunflower seed kernels are grey, so I actually would prefer the milk be slightly greyish than a pure, creepy white.

As they suggest on their website, I tried it in a variety of uses and here’s my verdict. I like the sunflower milk for baking, smoothies, and over cold cereal. I did not like it as an additive to tea or coffee because I tend to like a more neutrally flavored nondairy milk in my hot beverages. I don’t generally drink glasses of nondairy milk plain, but I tried a small glass of the sunflower milk plain, just to give it a try. I like flavor of it on its own. I also like how remarkably low in calories the sunflower milk is. The unsweetened variety has only 45 calories in 1 cup and the vanilla flavor has 90 calories in 1 cup. This is one of the lowest calorie nondairy milks I’ve seen.  

In short, I like the sunflower milk for most uses, but I would want to keep a more neutral nondairy milk on hand for coffee and tea. I would buy the sunflower milk again and I might even like to try the vanilla sunflower milk in some chia pudding sometime soon, but it would not replace my all-purpose usage of rice milk. Have any of you tried sunflower milk? What did you think?

And now, for the….   

 ***GIVEAWAY***

Sunrich kindly sent me a nice stack of coupons for *one FREE Sunrich product*. I have quite a few coupons and I would love to send them out to all of you lovely readers who would like to try one free sunflower milk product. All you have to do is make a comment below telling me that you would like to try the products. Then shoot me an email at serenityinthestorm@gmail.com with your NAME & ADDRESS so I can mail you a coupon for a free product. I’ll give them all away until they run out.

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