There’s a new alternative milk on the market: barley milk.

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Up until now, spent barley grain has gone to feed livestock or ends up in landfills.

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It also containspea protein, chicory root, coconut, and sunflower oil.

Its a formulation that Pool says took three years to perfect.

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In this way, its truly formulated to provide energy.

But this rejuvenated barley milk actually is, in many ways,goodfor the planet.

This product, being plant-based and made from leftover barley, achieves that on both fronts.

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Okay, but how does it taste?

Thats the real question, right?

What I first noticed was the color, which is a muddy brown.

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It certainly didnottaste like a grain bowl.

With all of those upsides, it just might rival beer as the best use of barley yet.

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