Milk is also considered a hybrid food in OTP. It used to be that when someone said milk, everyone knew they were talking about cow milk – that was the only available option. Now, there’s rice milk, almond milk, hemp milk, flaxseed milk, coconut milk, soy milk, goat milk, oat milk and more. And within each of these types there are subtypes — sweetened, unsweetened, vanilla flavored, non-fat, reduced-fat and full-fat. So many choices!!!  I’m going to use cow milk as an example for starters and explain how it fits into ONE-TWO PUNCH. A cup of cow milk has 8 grams of protein, about the same as a cheese stick. It also has around 13 grams of carbs, near the carbs in a slice of bread. So, consider a glass of cow milk a hybrid food — it has both carbohydrate and protein.  It’s the same for a cup of regular, not Greek, plain cow milk yogurt. It’s a hybrid food and that’s just the plain version! When you add fruit and/or sugar, you’re adding another carb and it’s like you’ve got two fists of carbs to one fist protein. With Greek yogurt, much of the lactose or milk sugar … Continue reading Milk