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    A Peas Offering For The Dairy Aisle: Can This Milk Alternative Rival The Real Deal?

    Yellow-pea milk might sound odd, but the founders of Ripple Foods think their protein-rich dairy alternatives could give cow's milk a run for its money and open the door to more plant-based products.
    by Whitney Pipkin Jan 19, 2018 4 minutes
    Already, Ripple has expanded its offerings to include a creamy half-and-half and, this month, a Greek-style yogurt, both of which can be used in cooking.

    The nearly $8 billion dairy-alternatives market is expected to double in size over the next four years, thanks in part to the growing number of people avoiding cow's milk. But, even if former milk drinkers can get over the differences in taste, there's one front on which the almond, cashew and coconut cannot compete with the cow: protein.

    That's the problem Adam Lowry and Neil Renninger — Silicon Valley-based scientists who previously founded cleaning products and , respectively — set out to solve when they launched a line of milks made not from nuts or soybeans, but from

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