FAQs
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These are our current routes:
Tuesdays - Totterdown, Bedminster, Knowle, Brislington
Wednesdays - Easton, Redfield, St. George, Speedwell, Kingswood (and Central / Spike Island later in the morning or early afternoon)
Thursdays: St. Werburghs, Montpellier, St. Andrews, Lockleaze, Gloucester Road, Redland
Fridays: Greenbank, Eastville, Fishponds, Downend
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Our doorstep deliveries go out around 4:30am - 5am, and will arrive like magic at your doorstep anytime from 5am - 10am.
As some of our routes are growing, a few of the times at the end of routes may be a little later than this, but we will add more delivery people once the routes get to certain size to bring the times back down
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Yes! We developed the recipe to be as close to dairy milk in taste as possible (whilst being better environmentally and in terms of animal welfare)
So it does everything dairy milk can do, including make swirly latte art and tasting good and as it should in a cup of tea or coffee
For use in a home frother: It will foam up nicely if done only for 10-15 seconds - any longer, and this collapses the foam.
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Oat base (water, organic oats (11%)), rapsflower oil, organic peas, pH & mineral balance (calcium carbonate, potassium phosphate), prebiotic & probiotic (acacia fibre, chicory root fibre), salt
Rapsflower is an alternative name for Rapeseed, ‘cos its better
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Float is a good source of calcium! The calcium carbonate (from natural rock sources) in our recipe gives 120mg / 100ml of elemental calcium, and the oats give 5.4mg / 100ml, so combined its about 125mg of calcium per 100ml of floatmylk..... that's the same as the amount found in cows milk, and more than in other oatmilk brands like oatly.
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Oats themselves do not contain any gluten, however farmers use crop rotation to keep the soil healthy. Oats are often grown in fields that have grown wheat or barley in previous years, and some of these seed and get mixed into the harvest.
The amount of gluten in Float is very low, however it may still be present. In general we say it is suitable for someone who following a low gluten diet, or may have low level gluten sensitivity, but not for someone who has coeliac disease
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Our aim has always been to make a balanced, healthy alternative to dairy milk. Fats / oils are an important part of a balanced diet, and the recommended daily amount (RDA) is around 70g. A whole bottle of Float contains about 30g of fats, so even if you are having a quarter of a bottle a day, that is only 7.5g, which is 10-15% of your RDA.
Rapsflower / rapeseed is one of the healthiest sources of fats / oils, and the healthiest one grown in the UK. It has one of the best ratios of omega 3 to 6 fatty acids, second only to olive oil, and it also has half the saturated fat content of olive oil, which some say makes it healthier (saturated fats, common in all animal sources of fats, are the leading cause of heart disease, which in the UK is the single biggest cause of death. All plant-based sources of fats reduce the risk of this).
Unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation out there about rapeseed oil, which probably derives from its history when high-urucic varieties of the plant were used, which have all been phased out for a number of years, leaving us with the modern day rapsflower oil grown in the South West, high in Vitamin E, and good for the soil as it is a nitrogen fixing plant in the brassica family.