— YVONNE TETREAULT

I've listed a link here, um, right underneath here from milk pick.com. Um, and there's a great scientific kind of reasoning behind this. So what happens when you're getting like a chili or something on your tongue is that's like an oil that's spreading on your tongue and it's clinging to your tongue. So if you're adding water to that, it's going to spread that and it's gonna actually kind of make it a little bit worse. Now, there are certain chemical reactions that happen in milk-based products like, uh, yogurts and milk itself, or sometimes cheese that help to kind of counteract that oil spreading over your tongue and start to the protein and fat starts to actually, uh, take out that, um, kind of oil, if you will, off of your tongue that's making it heat up so much. Now, when it comes to vegan foods, it's a little bit different because if you're doing like a vegan milk, um, you know, like an oat milk for example, that's mostly water based, so you're gonna have, it's not gonna work the same way, in the same way where if you were just drinking water to, uh, cool off your tongue, it's sometimes it can make it worse. Like something like oat milk would actually have the same kind of reaction. Um, but, uh, there are a couple that will actually work much better. One of them is a cashew milk, another was an almond milk and, uh, coconut milk actually. So all three of those actually work much better because there are more of a fat than more water in it as well. And it'll, that fat helps absorb some of the heat that's coming into it. It's not gonna be as, uh, prominent as some of the milk products might be, but almond cashew milk, uh, definitely kind of helps out with those things. Um, and, uh, coconut milk actually happens or works really well with that too. You'll see that that's one of the reasons that you'll see a lot of the, um, you know, Indian or Thai dishes that have a lot of chilies in them. It'll actually help tone it down because of the coconut milk that actually is in there and that chemical reaction that happens on your tongue is a little bit different. But if you wanna get more information on that, I definitely recommend seeing the, uh, article that I posted here on Milk Pick. It really goes into the science of how that chemical reaction works, both with dairy and it really spots non-dairy milk, um, vegan milk helping with spicy food. So I hope that helps.

https://milkpick.com/does-vegan-milk-help-with-spicy-food/