One of the first things you’ll notice when you read the picture of the label on the side of the new Organic Silk Unsweetened Soy Milk is that they’ve made Silk even easier to love. They could have done this in several ways, i.e., by reducing the price, by including uplifting words of encouragement on the packaging, by enhancing the flavor, or by telling you they have made it taste better. They have chosen one of the latter two methods, but which one is correct? Did they really enhance the flavor, or did they just tell you that they enhanced it, and really they added nothing but the flavor of your expectation?
My Soy Milk friends, I am here to tell you that they really did enhance the flavor. I was a skeptic. I never liked Soy Milk because the strange and subtle disgusting flavor that marched around your mouth and haunted the back of your tongue from the depths of your stomach.
But things changed one day when I tried Silk’s Organic Unsweetened Soy Milk. I had it on a bowl of Barbara’s Oat Squares. Normally, I included blueberries with the soy milk to help mask the flavor. Sometime during a refill of that time of cereal consumption I realized that I didn’t need the blueberries.
Then I read the label: “We’re talking good enough to drink straight from the carton.”
Really? I got out a cup and poured myself an inch. I drank it. Where was the soy flavor? It tasted almost like a pleasant vanilla ice cream. The label was right.
But what sort of thick-flavored chemicals could they have put in to mask the soy? I looked at the side:
Only Soy, Carageenen, Sea Salt, and Natural Flavor.
I now believe that the purity of the Organic Soy Beans, mixed with Natural Flavor, allow for the crisp vanilla flavor. Who knows what the Natural Flavor is? All we know is that it’s singular, and its a trade secret.
Let them have their secret. They gave us this new silk.
I don’t know what Silk did to “enhance” the flavor, but it made me switch back to real milk, and I normally welcome change. But when the change is a thick stock of harsh chemical powder, I have to abandon ship and take my business elsewhere.
Is Silk paying you to spew this nonsense?
The “great new taste” is what is disgusting. The old taste was “barely any taste” – and that was a GOOD thing.
I have to agree with Nathan and Scott. Unsweetened soymilk isn’t supposed to taste like ‘pleasant vanilla ice cream.’ They already sell vanilla soymilk for that. The new unsweetened silk was a sickly sweet mess that I threw out and had the company reimburse me for. If I wanted sweetened milk, I’d have been drinking the sweetened version all along.
They greatly increased the vanilla. If I wanted to taste vanilla I’ll buy a shake. Silk is stupid. They’ve continually messed up the flavor of their different styles. In it ain’t broke…
I switched to Great Value Original Organic from Wal-Mart – cheaper and great taste. Tastes like Silk Original before they messed it up.
HOW ABOUT ACTUALLY USING REAL, AS IN- NON GENETICALLY MODIFIED SOYBEANS.
I CAN GUARATEE YOU IT WILL TASTE 100x BETTER. Think of those very large, dry, orange tomatoes at the grocery store… THOSE ARE GMO! And yet the still very delicious and juicy vine ripened ones are of course natural (non-gmo)
Honestly myself, almost all of my friends, and my VERY large family are boycotting nearly all (obvious) gmos. Corn and soy products are forever crossed off our grocery lists till the importance of human health is placed over money again, or till we move to Europe. Seriously that is how disgusted I am. Go get a movie called FOOD INC and watch it now, then show it to everyone you know.
LISTEN UP SILK I WOULD BE WILLING TO PAY THE EXTRA $1.25 TO ENSURE IM EATING QUALITY FOOD BUT SINCE YOU ARE FKING SELL OUTS I DON’T GIVE A SHT HOW MANY TIMES YOU SAY YOUR CRAP IS ORGANIC AND “NATURAL” I WANT YOU TO KNOW YOU’VE FOREVER FKED YOUR BUSINESS WITH ME
Unsweetened Silk has always been my standby to make great gravies (like a dairy-free biscuits & gravy)–it thickens just as well as milk. The new formula is a bit sweeter, so my gravies and sauces have a slightly sweet taste. I agree, it tastes better when drinking alone, but for savory dishes I do miss the bland taste.
Boycott, if a product is Organic it is non-GMO. I know some Silk products aren’t organic, but the unsweetened is so you’re safe.
If I wanted the soymilk to taste like Vanilla, I would have bought vanilla. There’s a reason I buy it PLAIN. This new crap is unusable. Unfortunately, there are very few reasonably priced brand choices out there for the UNSWEETENED variety.