Oatly (single-serve drinks for hotels/restaurants)

Oatly has become the first company to offer single-serve oat drink sachets for commercial use (offices, cafes, hotels, restaurants etc). It’s of course better to use bigger bottles to pour from. But millions of places around the world do use single-serve plastic sachets, so these are better choice.

Each box includes 100 pyramid-shaped single-serve oat drinks, for the perfect portion without waste. Easy-to-squeeze, the sachets are sold in a box that also serves as a product display, and is easily recycled after use. Oatly has a rich creamy taste, idea for people to serve with tea or coffee (for vegans or those with allergies).

You can also store it at room temperature for several months.

Ongoing Debate on Oat Drink Labels

Recently, Dairy UK won a court case against Oatly, to stop it using the words ‘milk’ or ‘post-milk-generation’, so now all such beverages must be called ‘oat drink’. The idea is that consumers don’t get confused, but we’re quite intelligent, and seems to be about listening to those lobbying for the farming industry (most dairy sold in the UK is not from certified free-range cows happily grazing in fields).

Factory livestock farming is a major emitter of greenhouse gases, so how this tallies with net zero policies of the government is not clear. The same happened in Sweden, when the powerful national dairy board took Oatly (a Swedish company) to court. It caused the founder so much good publicity and increased sales, he says he wished they’d taken him to court years ago!