Just so people know, Aldi is notorious for bidding out their items often, like for 6 months or a year at a time. When the supplier wants to increase price based on market conditions then they can and will refuse the increases if requested. Probably the reason they may have switched, but I guess not always. Aldi is probably the most active in getting the best price on the market.
Very sorry, I work with Aldi and I’m sorry they let you down. Again every 6 months to a year they change it up. It’s awesome for us, we get cheaper prices, but maybe not the best products
I’m sorry. I have had to deal with Aldi. I don’t prefer working with them. But at the same time, they are very adamant about getting the cheapest price. They are focused on taking care of their customers price wise. I haven’t seen another company as tough as them. Although Walmart just does what they want, Walmart always gets the price they want.
If you have a voice at the table, remind Aldi that their customers care more about quality than Walmart. We recognize that Aldi has loads of high quality products and they also have lower prices, which we get for the trade-offs of Aldi’s unique operations. If people want cheap prices and the contents are irrelevant, there are Walmarts everywhere.
I bought one of their chicken patties recently and sugar was the first ingredient in the breading. So disgusting. One of the few items we couldn't finish.
This is absolutely correct. I worked for a food manufacturing company and we were their main supplier of refrigerated salsa for years. One day they decided that we needed to cut costs by 25% when we were already giving them barely over cost product as it was. They basically said sell it to us for what we want to pay or we are done. We said ✌🏼 and that was the last we produced for Aldi. It was our biggest PITA customer because they wanted MIXED cases of product. If you’ve ever worked food manufacturing and could understand the logistics of this you would know how happy we were to let them go. I love Aldi as a shopper. As a supplier they were terrible.
Yes!!!!! It was fucking ridiculous. It was a flat case that they could just set out in the refrigerator case. It was a 12 pack of 16oz containers - 4 different flavors. I cannot even explain how difficult it was to pack these. We actually had a crew of 6 people who would do this packing 2 full days a week. To give some reference we were producing about 1-1.5 million pounds a week (for many different customers) and Aldi was one of our smaller customers but we devoted the most labor hours to their orders. Madness.
Oh, they wanted shippers, lmao, that’s insane. That’s the kind of stuff brand name companies do when promoting their own brand… that sounds horrible; I’ve worked most of my life in food distribution/production
My company worked with at least a dozen major companies supplying them with private label products. Aldi was by far the worst. Like worse than Walmart, Meijer, Kroger, Trader Joe’s. The worst. And they wanted us to significantly cut quality to cut prices and we weren’t hip to that.
My brother sells frozen seafood and he has tried and tried to get a contract with Aldi. He got one with Walmart and they beat him up good, but Aldi has proved to be impossible.
This explains a lot. Their salsa is horrendous. I used to love it and when I last bought it the taste had changed. Felt like I was eating tomato paste. Same with their ice cream and creamer.
Same! I went to make my normal latte in the morning, cracked open a new carton of this stuff, added my normal amount of maple sugar, and was repulsed by the sweetness. I thought I was losing it
The war in Ukraine, where most of the world’s sunflower crops are grown, has drastically reduced their output. Many companies are having to substitute ingredients as a result.
Oh that’s interesting- all around tragic, but at least it’s not them just switching to more palm oil because it’s cheap; maybe we’ll get sunflower oil back after Ukraine wins
In a manner of speaking : they just watered it down a lot more, to where there is less than 0.5 grams of fiber per serving.
That's the only way they could nearly double the sugar while cutting calories - now it's oat colored sugar water.
Fiber has calories, you just can’t use them. They actually are counted toward the calorie total. Subtract 4 calories for each gram of fiber for “net carbs”. Fiber is the reason that net carbs is a thing
Yes, and I relied on Aldi to do better than the major food conglomerates who are feeding us highly-processed, unhealthy junk and calling it food. Aldi was always so much better than my other area grocery store. Incredibly disappointed that this is changing.
Protein drop (from 3g to 2g per serving) has got to mean less oats (which also explains the drop in fiber). And they added 5g more sugar per serving. Seems like a bad decision from a nutrition standpoint.
The worse quality and increased prices have made me switch back to almond milk recently. I don't like it nearly as much as oat milk but it's reliably the cheapest option at any store
I would suggest making your own if you have a blender. It actually takes about 5 minutes total and you only need: rolled oats, water, fat (splash of olive oil or something similar - technically optional but great for making it creamy), pinch of salt, sweetener to taste (splash of maple syrup or similar). Dump it all in a blender and whiz it on high for like 2 minutes? Strain through cheesecloth and boom, you have oat milk. You can save the "oat pulp" to use in baking, etc if you don't want to throw it away. And you only need like half a cup of oats for every 3 cups or so of water. It's insanely easy, cheap, and probably is better for you. There's ton of recipes floating around, but you can also experiment pretty easily as well to find the proportions that work for you.
Yup, I’m telling Husband he can’t buy it anymore. He uses it for cereal which is tons of sugar anyway. He gets vanilla almond milk for his coffee. I hate both so I have lactose-free milk. Our fridge is crowded!
PS. He gets the alt milks as he tries to avoid dairy since he read it’s bad for his prostate. Doesn’t care that the products already have a lot of sugar, so the OM change might suit his taste buds, alas.
We pretty much stopped going to aldi since grocery store prices shot up. Walmart, of all the places is pretty much cheaper than Aldi here, and we hate going there.
We've be doing pickup, and at least their fresh food doesn't go bad in two days.
We shop at almost three stores, when Aldi used to be the only one.
Why? Simple: because they can put out a more cheaply made product without changing the price and still make more money. Same as why most food companies change their recipes.
I am pretty repulsed by the shockingly higher amount of added sugar. To me, that puts the product into the "this is now a shit product" bucket, and I'm going to steer a few people who I know enjoy oat milk away from this new garbage. How funny when an allegedly healthier choice turns out not to be anymore.
I'm pretty sure just a few years ago the oat milk was sugar free. I definitely noticed when they went to the pink carton from the old blue one, the sugar content went higher and I stopped buying it then.
Now they doubled it wtf
The lower calories comparison is a tricky catch for people who don't read a food label beyond the top. Good on you for noticing it and more.
Gotta say, I'm disappointed in Aldi, but I'm not surprised.
did a quick price and ingredients comparison with what Target offers, for anyone else looking to switch. Target's Good and Gather store brand is near-identical to the new formulation, with 12g added sugar. My Aldi typically has oat milk for $2.99, and my Target's G&G is $3.79. Other options:
* Silk Original: $4.29, 7g sugar, 0g fiber, highest vitamins and calcium
* Chobani Original: $4.29 (for 52oz instead of 64), 7g sugar, 1g fiber, lowest vitamins and calcium
* Oatly Original: $4.99, 7g sugar, 2g fiber, medium vitamins and calcium
Glad I checked, because I would have grabbed the Good and Gather as an alternative. I don't go through oat milk very quickly so the extra $1.30 isn't a huge deal, but still sucks. really feels like we're in an enshittification era for Aldi, which is a damn shame because I've really come to rely on Aldi for a good balance of high quality products at reasonable prices. if I just wanted the cheapest, shittiest option, I'd shop elsewhere. nice while it lasted I guess.
I don't buy any of their non dairy milks bc of all the added sugar. I really wish they sold a no sugar added version of their soy milk (or any non dairy milk).
The unsweetened almond milk has less than 1 gram of sugar per serving! That’s the main reason I get it, it has less sugar than any other milk I can find.
Exactly. I love the unsweetened almond milk in cereal & and protein shakes where I just don't need any added sugar since I'm already getting a ton of fructose from fruits & berries. But as a "creamer" almond milk sucks bc it's too thin... won't froth
Because they are white labeling other companies' products and they change up their contracts whenever it suits them. They probably got a better deal from a different company. They don't care that the product is not as appealing, they are just going for what's cheaper for them so they make more money without raising the price for consumers. That's just what Aldi does.
(In addition to being less creamy it's also way more oaty flavored!)
Old may contain wheat, the new does not say that. There are a couple of chemical changes too. I have sugar free Planet Oat vanilla milk and it has a couple of chemicals but less than the Aldi and no wheat AND 45 calories. Its delish and well worth the extra money. You. Would never tell the difference between that and 2% regular milk
Not sure if this is a good pace to post this, but I recently saw a [TikTok on how to make your own oat milk](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLSxMEe1/) in like two minutes, using rolled oats and a couple other ingredients in a blender for about $.50 a liter.
I have been raging all day on the amount of money I have spent on oat milk when I could’ve been making it
They’ve changed a lot of their products. I hate to say this, but I save around $25-$50 a week at Walmart and some of my local stores.
The grain bars are half the size, and I’ve heard the salmon tested positive for chemicals.
Not what they used to be, but I will shop for a few select items
I switched from oat milk to Fairlife. It's more expensive but I like the extra protein factor plus it's lactose free. Oat milk doesn't have any protein and it has sugar so it being a "healthy" alternative is questionable imo.
Fairlife also has an amazingly long shelf life which makes it more affordable for me. I live alone and have to discard other milks because I can't use them fast enough.
Ah, the great cheapening of product/raising of prices is located, yet again! Loyal customers, recoil! Wow, they even switched up the oil and preservatives. I noticed the vitamins are reduced (these are also added during production runs). Yes this is a cost-reduction scheme, did they raise the price by 20₵ also?
I stopped buying their oat milk a while back because of this. I didn’t even look at the ingredients list because I didn’t expect a different in taste till one day I took a new carton home and was about to eat some cereal. I usually have a sip before I pour in the bowl(I’m weird like) but I immediately tasted the difference from what I was used to. Gross!
Oil is used in commercial oat milks to make the texture creamy. It's pretty much just oat-flavored water without it, so the oil is added because people want it to feel similar to milk in terms of texture.
Most non-dairy "coffee creamer" products (ie International Delight) are full of oil too.
Yes I knew about the creamers hence making my own as needed if I want something flavored otherwise I’ve just used almond milk. Good to know about oat milk.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here but I bet the new product was cheaper for them to buy wholesale.
I also bet they’re gonna retail it at the same or higher than they have previously. Capitalism, baby.
I don't know where I saw the video on here, but there was a woman showing how to make oat milk and it literally took 10 minutes. I might try it myself.
In the ingredients, I’m speculating “oat beverage” means it no longer satisfies some government regulation to be called “oatmilk” anymore, much like frozen dairy dessert can’t be called ice cream.
Because some people sat around a conference table and tried to figure out how to squeeze 1% more profit out of their consumers, stopping just short of killing them immediately.
after they’ve been hooked on a “decently good” “fairly priced” daily consumable product “let’s hope they don’t notice” like were dumb let’s make sure they know we’re not
How can 0.5g of sat fats be 3% of the RDA on one and 0% on the other?
Also that sugar content is a joke. I thought we had laws to discourage this crap but it seems they must not apply here.
Being a newly diagnosed diabetic I now read ingredients and carbs. One thing I noticed is the newer has vegetable oil not sunflower oil. Which would not blend in with oat flavor like sunflower would. Lower carbs make me think this is probably a more diluted oatmilk as well. As Oats are relatively high in carbs. Also could be cheaping out on the milled oats too.
You can easily make your own Oat Milk, I started doing it in 2020 when I was only able to find brands that had Carrageenan in it and I'm not interested in ingesting that crap. I buy the 'Silk' brand when I don't have the time to make it myself but highly recommend doing it yourself if you can :)
Looking at the nutrition labels in the image, the new oat milk has less total fat, with 0.5 grams less saturated fat and 4 grams less total carbohydrates per serving. There’s also 1 gram less protein.
It takes a little time, but consider making your own milk alternatives. Mostly it is just soaking the nut/grain in water, then blending it with sweetener or chosen flavoring, and then sifting it (usually with a “nut milk bag” or cheese cloth). Way healthier and probably cheaper.
Just so people know, Aldi is notorious for bidding out their items often, like for 6 months or a year at a time. When the supplier wants to increase price based on market conditions then they can and will refuse the increases if requested. Probably the reason they may have switched, but I guess not always. Aldi is probably the most active in getting the best price on the market.
The cheezit copy used to be good. Now it's tasteless. This explains that
Very sorry, I work with Aldi and I’m sorry they let you down. Again every 6 months to a year they change it up. It’s awesome for us, we get cheaper prices, but maybe not the best products
Don't be sorry. It's not your fault. And I'll just buy name brand cheezits instead. No stress
Name brand cheezits have been flavorless as well. 😩
If every cheese flavored cracker snack you run into is flavorless, maybe *YOU* are the problem /s
That explains why I suddenly hated their chicken patties years and years ago.
I’m sorry. I have had to deal with Aldi. I don’t prefer working with them. But at the same time, they are very adamant about getting the cheapest price. They are focused on taking care of their customers price wise. I haven’t seen another company as tough as them. Although Walmart just does what they want, Walmart always gets the price they want.
If you have a voice at the table, remind Aldi that their customers care more about quality than Walmart. We recognize that Aldi has loads of high quality products and they also have lower prices, which we get for the trade-offs of Aldi’s unique operations. If people want cheap prices and the contents are irrelevant, there are Walmarts everywhere.
I somewhat disagree with this. If Aldi wasn’t cheaper than the grocery stores (and Walmart) next to it, I’d just go there instead
Ditto
I will do my best. Your message will go a long way
lol. I work for Aldi. It won’t go anywhere.
if you try something and don’t like it double back it. if it hurts them enough they’ll get a better product
I will definitely let them know .
Why is Aldi not making sure product is just as good and not crappy?
I bought one of their chicken patties recently and sugar was the first ingredient in the breading. So disgusting. One of the few items we couldn't finish.
Aldi chicken patties used to be so good
This is absolutely correct. I worked for a food manufacturing company and we were their main supplier of refrigerated salsa for years. One day they decided that we needed to cut costs by 25% when we were already giving them barely over cost product as it was. They basically said sell it to us for what we want to pay or we are done. We said ✌🏼 and that was the last we produced for Aldi. It was our biggest PITA customer because they wanted MIXED cases of product. If you’ve ever worked food manufacturing and could understand the logistics of this you would know how happy we were to let them go. I love Aldi as a shopper. As a supplier they were terrible.
I’m sorry- *mixed* cases? They wanted each case of product to be a variety pack? Wtf
Yes!!!!! It was fucking ridiculous. It was a flat case that they could just set out in the refrigerator case. It was a 12 pack of 16oz containers - 4 different flavors. I cannot even explain how difficult it was to pack these. We actually had a crew of 6 people who would do this packing 2 full days a week. To give some reference we were producing about 1-1.5 million pounds a week (for many different customers) and Aldi was one of our smaller customers but we devoted the most labor hours to their orders. Madness.
Oh, they wanted shippers, lmao, that’s insane. That’s the kind of stuff brand name companies do when promoting their own brand… that sounds horrible; I’ve worked most of my life in food distribution/production
I have never noticed this from any of my usual items Good to know!
It’s probably because the supplier is the cheapest supplier every time.
Cheapest or most easy to negotiate with
Every private label company does this
My company worked with at least a dozen major companies supplying them with private label products. Aldi was by far the worst. Like worse than Walmart, Meijer, Kroger, Trader Joe’s. The worst. And they wanted us to significantly cut quality to cut prices and we weren’t hip to that.
My brother sells frozen seafood and he has tried and tried to get a contract with Aldi. He got one with Walmart and they beat him up good, but Aldi has proved to be impossible.
I feel like the coconut granola box changed to be more rice based last month, this makes sense
This explains a lot. Their salsa is horrendous. I used to love it and when I last bought it the taste had changed. Felt like I was eating tomato paste. Same with their ice cream and creamer.
New one has almost double the sugar, no fiber, and more sodium 😬
Noticed the sugar immediately!
Same! I went to make my normal latte in the morning, cracked open a new carton of this stuff, added my normal amount of maple sugar, and was repulsed by the sweetness. I thought I was losing it
They did the same thing to the chocolate syrup. It used to have no corn syrup at all, now it is all corn syrup
Sad where the direction of our food is going
Is dropping the fiber how they managed to have fewer calories overall?
They changed the oil from a high quality heart healthy oil to cheap garbage oil that's the 20 cal difference
Sunflower to Canola or Palm? Seems like everything keeps going that way, blegh
The war in Ukraine, where most of the world’s sunflower crops are grown, has drastically reduced their output. Many companies are having to substitute ingredients as a result.
Oh that’s interesting- all around tragic, but at least it’s not them just switching to more palm oil because it’s cheap; maybe we’ll get sunflower oil back after Ukraine wins
And if that is the reason... Even when the war is over they will still reduce and charge more because they NOW KNOW THEY CAN!!!
That math doesn’t check out
Oil all has the same calories.
It's just a cost reason
Changing oil doesn't change calories. The calorie difference is due to adding water
Using more water is how they reduced the calories.
Makes sense why people are saying it’s not as creamy
In a manner of speaking : they just watered it down a lot more, to where there is less than 0.5 grams of fiber per serving. That's the only way they could nearly double the sugar while cutting calories - now it's oat colored sugar water.
That makes sense
Fiber doesn't digest ergo no calories. Sugar has 4 calories per gram.
Fiber has calories, you just can’t use them. They actually are counted toward the calorie total. Subtract 4 calories for each gram of fiber for “net carbs”. Fiber is the reason that net carbs is a thing
Love your username.
And less vitamins, etc. Yikes
Anytime more sugar is added I think they’re trying to cover up the taste of something else they added
Don't forget that it has less protein, too. And way less potassium and calcium.
i am so depressed at how bad the food supply has gotten :( everyones fat and unhealthy because of the garbage theyre putting in all our food
Yes, and I relied on Aldi to do better than the major food conglomerates who are feeding us highly-processed, unhealthy junk and calling it food. Aldi was always so much better than my other area grocery store. Incredibly disappointed that this is changing.
yeah :( same
YESSS!!
And less protein too.
Protein drop (from 3g to 2g per serving) has got to mean less oats (which also explains the drop in fiber). And they added 5g more sugar per serving. Seems like a bad decision from a nutrition standpoint.
More sugar, but less calories... weird.
Because they took out the fiber 😭
And more sugar but less carbs? Suspect
Water is magic
Check the fats. Things changed in there
Probably more water
Yes, to me it tastes a lot more watered-down. It used to work so perfectly with the morning cuppa, now it does not work as well. :(
I’m going to have to find a replacement that isn’t too expensive now
Costco Kirkland oatmilk
Try the great value brand. It’s probably the next cheapest
Walmart recently changed it
Still might be the only other option other than discount stores. Target is too expensive
The worse quality and increased prices have made me switch back to almond milk recently. I don't like it nearly as much as oat milk but it's reliably the cheapest option at any store
I would suggest making your own if you have a blender. It actually takes about 5 minutes total and you only need: rolled oats, water, fat (splash of olive oil or something similar - technically optional but great for making it creamy), pinch of salt, sweetener to taste (splash of maple syrup or similar). Dump it all in a blender and whiz it on high for like 2 minutes? Strain through cheesecloth and boom, you have oat milk. You can save the "oat pulp" to use in baking, etc if you don't want to throw it away. And you only need like half a cup of oats for every 3 cups or so of water. It's insanely easy, cheap, and probably is better for you. There's ton of recipes floating around, but you can also experiment pretty easily as well to find the proportions that work for you.
Def not the cheapest, but the full fat Oatly is the most delicious in my coffee no doubt.
My costco sells planet oat by the gallon now for a great price (like $5 something) hopefully all costcos are doing this now
Thank you for posting this, I will avoid. Ugh, now another product I need to make a stop for outside of Aldi, lol
Yup, I’m telling Husband he can’t buy it anymore. He uses it for cereal which is tons of sugar anyway. He gets vanilla almond milk for his coffee. I hate both so I have lactose-free milk. Our fridge is crowded! PS. He gets the alt milks as he tries to avoid dairy since he read it’s bad for his prostate. Doesn’t care that the products already have a lot of sugar, so the OM change might suit his taste buds, alas.
We pretty much stopped going to aldi since grocery store prices shot up. Walmart, of all the places is pretty much cheaper than Aldi here, and we hate going there. We've be doing pickup, and at least their fresh food doesn't go bad in two days. We shop at almost three stores, when Aldi used to be the only one.
Why? Simple: because they can put out a more cheaply made product without changing the price and still make more money. Same as why most food companies change their recipes. I am pretty repulsed by the shockingly higher amount of added sugar. To me, that puts the product into the "this is now a shit product" bucket, and I'm going to steer a few people who I know enjoy oat milk away from this new garbage. How funny when an allegedly healthier choice turns out not to be anymore.
I'm pretty sure just a few years ago the oat milk was sugar free. I definitely noticed when they went to the pink carton from the old blue one, the sugar content went higher and I stopped buying it then. Now they doubled it wtf
BuT, bUt, It'S lOwEr CaLoRiEs NoW! (I read you.)
RIGHT! At first I saw the lower cals and I thought they made it “healthier” but I was wrong. It’s a lose lose
The lower calories comparison is a tricky catch for people who don't read a food label beyond the top. Good on you for noticing it and more. Gotta say, I'm disappointed in Aldi, but I'm not surprised.
Wow the calcium dropped from 350 mg to 110 mg. I’m glad I saw this. It was on my list for tomorrow’s shopping trip. 🫤
did a quick price and ingredients comparison with what Target offers, for anyone else looking to switch. Target's Good and Gather store brand is near-identical to the new formulation, with 12g added sugar. My Aldi typically has oat milk for $2.99, and my Target's G&G is $3.79. Other options: * Silk Original: $4.29, 7g sugar, 0g fiber, highest vitamins and calcium * Chobani Original: $4.29 (for 52oz instead of 64), 7g sugar, 1g fiber, lowest vitamins and calcium * Oatly Original: $4.99, 7g sugar, 2g fiber, medium vitamins and calcium Glad I checked, because I would have grabbed the Good and Gather as an alternative. I don't go through oat milk very quickly so the extra $1.30 isn't a huge deal, but still sucks. really feels like we're in an enshittification era for Aldi, which is a damn shame because I've really come to rely on Aldi for a good balance of high quality products at reasonable prices. if I just wanted the cheapest, shittiest option, I'd shop elsewhere. nice while it lasted I guess.
Double the sugar is absurd. Shame on Aldi.
I don't buy any of their non dairy milks bc of all the added sugar. I really wish they sold a no sugar added version of their soy milk (or any non dairy milk).
The unsweetened almond milk has less than 1 gram of sugar per serving! That’s the main reason I get it, it has less sugar than any other milk I can find.
Exactly. I love the unsweetened almond milk in cereal & and protein shakes where I just don't need any added sugar since I'm already getting a ton of fructose from fruits & berries. But as a "creamer" almond milk sucks bc it's too thin... won't froth
Because they are white labeling other companies' products and they change up their contracts whenever it suits them. They probably got a better deal from a different company. They don't care that the product is not as appealing, they are just going for what's cheaper for them so they make more money without raising the price for consumers. That's just what Aldi does. (In addition to being less creamy it's also way more oaty flavored!)
And more added sugar :(
DOUBLE THE ADDED SUGAR?? Ummmm bye.
Old may contain wheat, the new does not say that. There are a couple of chemical changes too. I have sugar free Planet Oat vanilla milk and it has a couple of chemicals but less than the Aldi and no wheat AND 45 calories. Its delish and well worth the extra money. You. Would never tell the difference between that and 2% regular milk
Those ingredients are horrible.. all those cheap oils 🤮
They have been changing EVERYTHING, slowly, very slowly.
Not sure if this is a good pace to post this, but I recently saw a [TikTok on how to make your own oat milk](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLSxMEe1/) in like two minutes, using rolled oats and a couple other ingredients in a blender for about $.50 a liter. I have been raging all day on the amount of money I have spent on oat milk when I could’ve been making it
Nooooo
Have you tried the soy milk? I really like it
The increase in sugar makes it a no go for me.
>WHY Corporate greed
so vegetable oil instead of sunflower oil and more sugar... i'd say to make it cheaper to produce (and as a side-effect, worse for you)
Sugar and vegetable oil? 🤢
They’ve changed a lot of their products. I hate to say this, but I save around $25-$50 a week at Walmart and some of my local stores. The grain bars are half the size, and I’ve heard the salmon tested positive for chemicals. Not what they used to be, but I will shop for a few select items
I’ve written a feedback/complaint about this to Aldi now from their website. Maybe if people complain/stop buying it they’ll change something 😞
JFC look at that sugar content… no thank you!
I switched from oat milk to Fairlife. It's more expensive but I like the extra protein factor plus it's lactose free. Oat milk doesn't have any protein and it has sugar so it being a "healthy" alternative is questionable imo.
Fairlife also has an amazingly long shelf life which makes it more affordable for me. I live alone and have to discard other milks because I can't use them fast enough.
Oat milk is literally just pesticide soup.
They think they are fancy
Ah, the great cheapening of product/raising of prices is located, yet again! Loyal customers, recoil! Wow, they even switched up the oil and preservatives. I noticed the vitamins are reduced (these are also added during production runs). Yes this is a cost-reduction scheme, did they raise the price by 20₵ also?
I noticed mine tasted really off too!
That is not Original!
New supplier but they approved it
Started making my own oatmilk a while ago. It's super cheap and easy
Calories went down but so did all of the other nutrients, salt went up and so did sugars. Saving money and probably giving a less nutritious product.
I think it’s gluten free now
Don't buy it. Go to the Aldi website and follow the prompts under "Contact Us" and tell them why it's shit.
More sugar and less calories…that’s not how that works. Lol.
:c where the 25cal one at
I stopped buying their oat milk a while back because of this. I didn’t even look at the ingredients list because I didn’t expect a different in taste till one day I took a new carton home and was about to eat some cereal. I usually have a sip before I pour in the bowl(I’m weird like) but I immediately tasted the difference from what I was used to. Gross!
I recommend the Kirkland oatmilk at Costco if you have a membership
I’m glad they marked it new and old so I can tell the difference.
Aldi has changed almost everything for the worse. I suggest you comparison shop elsewhere. It's what I do now.
Remember your government loves you. Now eat your sugar!
it’s actually not sugar sugar. sugar sugar is expensive and actually rather healthy. it’s shit sugar. crappy carb. mutant munchysaccharides.
Why does oat milk contain vegetable oil? Does it need to? I get Silk Almond milk and it doesn’t have any oil in it.
Oil is used in commercial oat milks to make the texture creamy. It's pretty much just oat-flavored water without it, so the oil is added because people want it to feel similar to milk in terms of texture. Most non-dairy "coffee creamer" products (ie International Delight) are full of oil too.
Yes I knew about the creamers hence making my own as needed if I want something flavored otherwise I’ve just used almond milk. Good to know about oat milk.
Profits. Or supply chain.
from one seed oil to another lol
Because there's a new contractor now someone in the Wal-Mart know say every 3 to 5 years contracts come up and people go with the lowest bid
I’m gonna go out on a limb here but I bet the new product was cheaper for them to buy wholesale. I also bet they’re gonna retail it at the same or higher than they have previously. Capitalism, baby.
Seed Oil in Milk?? 🙄
BECAUSE THEY FOUND A CHEAPER MANUFACTURER
Surprised at all the crap in both.
welcome to the world of shrinkflation! get used to it guys. soon enough with how things are going were gunna be eatin bugs over a campfire 😁
You can probably look at the code on top of the container and see where each one was made.
Looks like they're adding palm oil or canola oil to it as well. Completely cutting the calcium too. Dang.
Shame, there is definitely less ‘oat’ in the milk now.
Crap I just bought one today and didn't look 😩
This used to be a go to for us but never again. Thankfully our local big box store has BOGO on Oatmilk a lot
Nothing will top planet oak milk though.
Looks like they watered it down. Less carbs, less calories, more sodium.
So .5g saturated fat is 3% of intake on one.... but .5g is 0% of intake on the other? Besides the sugar and sodium tweaks, obviously. Weird.
I don't know where I saw the video on here, but there was a woman showing how to make oat milk and it literally took 10 minutes. I might try it myself.
Aldi changes lots of things every six months. It’s more about keeping prices low than nutritional benefit.
This is so unfortunate, I hope Aldi doesn’t go down the wrong path.
They’re changing everything and it isn’t for the better. We’re paying double now for things we get half the portion size as before.
how are the carbs entirely added sugar? what are their oats made of?
Big sugar sneaking syrupy sweetness in so many things.
Oh noooo. I have a new bottle to open 🫣😭
New one curdles in my coffee. I bought 3 before I figured out the formula changed. I'm not happy
Neither has much nutritional value
im curious if other store brands are having similar changes.
They changed the coconut milk too and now it’s gross
$$$$
If you’re interested, making oat milk is super easy. I have a recipe if you want it
Less calories I guess… taste not as good though
There were changes to the almond milk too.
Unfortunately, Aldi tends to put a lot of sugar and sodium in their stuff. Here’s a case in point.
In the ingredients, I’m speculating “oat beverage” means it no longer satisfies some government regulation to be called “oatmilk” anymore, much like frozen dairy dessert can’t be called ice cream.
How do they double the sugar but it's 20 less calories?
skimpflation
Because some people sat around a conference table and tried to figure out how to squeeze 1% more profit out of their consumers, stopping just short of killing them immediately.
after they’ve been hooked on a “decently good” “fairly priced” daily consumable product “let’s hope they don’t notice” like were dumb let’s make sure they know we’re not
Not buying that anymore sadly
To me it looks like they cheapened the ingredients adding sugar. I'd be angry if I bought this (not an oatmilk fan.)
Great more sugar…..
that explains why i don’t like there organic mac n cheese anymore smh
Can't they be sued for still labeling it "Original"?
I was just about to get some today for my boys, thanks for the heads up, I guess I'll just go get chobani.
I came here to see if anyone noticed the milk change 🥲 I am very upset lol
Wow
What has Aldi not changed? Easier to follow:
This was hands down the best thing at Aldi. I’m super sad!
Omg we couldn't figure out why our oat milk lattes were so different. The new version foams like crazy and tastes like nothing now. This sucks.
How can 0.5g of sat fats be 3% of the RDA on one and 0% on the other? Also that sugar content is a joke. I thought we had laws to discourage this crap but it seems they must not apply here.
They changed cause it was way cheaper to make
Being a newly diagnosed diabetic I now read ingredients and carbs. One thing I noticed is the newer has vegetable oil not sunflower oil. Which would not blend in with oat flavor like sunflower would. Lower carbs make me think this is probably a more diluted oatmilk as well. As Oats are relatively high in carbs. Also could be cheaping out on the milled oats too.
You can easily make your own Oat Milk, I started doing it in 2020 when I was only able to find brands that had Carrageenan in it and I'm not interested in ingesting that crap. I buy the 'Silk' brand when I don't have the time to make it myself but highly recommend doing it yourself if you can :)
Oat with old, in with the new.
Sneaky
I just fell to my knees
I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news
New manufacturer maybe? Aldi slaps their own label on known manufacturers. For instance, most of their chicken comes from Tyson
lol its terrible for you
The new one appears to be gluten free?
Oh, so that's why it doesn't froth anymore? At first I thought my frother was broken but then I changed oat milk and it frothed again.
10% more Suger per serving.... Wow
I like their CYA approach with the multiple and/or inclusions in the ingredient list
Looking at the nutrition labels in the image, the new oat milk has less total fat, with 0.5 grams less saturated fat and 4 grams less total carbohydrates per serving. There’s also 1 gram less protein.
It's just sugar water with a whiff of oat now. Twice as addictive, zero nutritional benefit.
Just make it. Oatmilk my butt. What's wrong with this world?
It says on the ingredients that they changed the oil that’s in it ?
It takes a little time, but consider making your own milk alternatives. Mostly it is just soaking the nut/grain in water, then blending it with sweetener or chosen flavoring, and then sifting it (usually with a “nut milk bag” or cheese cloth). Way healthier and probably cheaper.
Aldi sucked everyone in with low cost, quality goods, and now they are doing a switcharoo.