Vitasoy Soya Bean Drink

1124 days ago

Ha, you knew that sooner or later I will be reviewing this right? Vitasoy is one of the most popular brand of Soya Bean Drinks in Singapore. Everyone heard of it. If you have no idea about this brand, then you must either be living in some monastery in Tibet or in the underground bunker meant for protection against nuclear attacks. And it is not surprising that a lot of Singaporeans love the taste of it. And it looks exactly like milk – white, unlike most other Soya Bean drinks we have which are off-white in colour. Even the Drinho Soya Bean Milk I bought a while back, the colour is more brownish than white. And this is normal. Soya Bean Milk is not Cow’s Milk, so it is in fact off-white! Not very sure how Vitasoy did it, but theirs come out really white.

As most of my other reviews, I bought this on offer. The price is about S$2.50 for 2 packs of a litre Soya Bean Milk Drink. Again, pretty reasonable considering the high price of foodstuff in Singapore. And if I remember correctly, I always like the taste of the Vitasoy Soya Bean Milk.

The picture of the Vitasoy Soya Bean Drink.  The design of this Vitasoy brand doesn’t seem to have changed much over the years. Actually it looks almost the same as what I was drinking it during my Secondary/JC school days. That’s like 20 years ago. Oh god, I feel old and sad now.

Woohooo! Now “added with Calcium“.  I wonder what do they mean by that? These designers and manufacturers, they sometimes boggles the mind till you have no idea what they are saying.

And oh, this is low fat, cholesterol free and lactose free! But the truth is, unless you really fucked up big time when you manufacture the Soya Bean Milk, all Soya Bean drinks are low fat, cholesterol free and lactose free. This pack contains 1 litre of delicious tasting soya bean milk.

Okay, the ingredients are water, soybean, sugar, soybean oil, calcium phosphate, salt and artificial flavour. Why is there artificial flavouring in this Soya Bean drink? No wonder we Singaporeans love Vitasoy so much – we love everything artificial. Too bad. I am not keen to the idea of adding artificial flavouring to anything. The calcium phosphate is the “added with calcium” thingy they are talking about on the front of the package. It does provide some additional calcium to the milk. However, I am not very sure how effective when it comes to body absorption.

Yah, no preservatives added. If they need to add preservatives to a Ultra Heat Treated (UHT) milk product, then Vitasoy really fucked up big time. Oh, this is a product of Hong Kong. But where do they get their ingredients from?

Sedimentation is a natural phenomenon, so shake well before use. Okay, I will buy that. Those soya bean solids will always settle on the bottom. Hey, even cow’s milk you will sometimes find milk solids (not fats) on the bottom.

Hey, check out the best before date – 25 March 2010! Wow! Another very long lasted product! Oh, if you are looking for a better alternative of Soya Bean Milk, I would highly recommend Drinho over Vitasoy. The ingredients used by Drinho to make their Soya Bean Milk is better and healthier than Vitasoy. However, Vitasoy does taste better than Drinho’s.

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