Whereas its fake meat counterparts have struggled currently, milk substitutes have grown into a virtually $3 billion enterprise within the U.S., in keeping with a report from GFI and Spins. A separate research, from the Plant Based mostly Meals Affiliation, discovered that plant-based milk gross sales elevated 4.2% over the previous two years.
The numbers are nonetheless small for plant-based ice cream and frozen novelties, with 10% of households shopping for these merchandise, per GFI.
Typical milk (from cows) stays the entrenched chief by far, bringing in $15.8 billion in gross sales, per IRI knowledge from 2023. And high-profile campaigns proceed to come back from teams such because the California Milk Processor Board and the Milk Processor Training Program, often called MilkPEP, utilizing well-known faces and aggressive messaging to prop up the section.