This is how a nut case goes to court

There’s an almond milk lawsuit in US District Court in New York. Two people who bought Almond Breeze Almond Milk are suing for $5 million because the almond milk contains only about 2 percent almonds.

They allege you’re basically getting a box of water.

So I went to the source: the raw food chefs who demonstrate on YouTube the proper way to make almond milk.

First, you need to soak one cup of almonds anywhere between 8 and 48 hours.

And guess what happens? They absorb that water. They plump up like little water balloons. Then, you put the waterlogged almonds in a blender and what do you do? You blend them up, before straining the mixture and removing the nut pulp.

But what are you actually doing? You’re straining out all of the nut pulp, which remains in the bag. So of course it’s mostly water because that big cup of almonds you started out with is now a sad mound of pulp sitting in a straining bag.

And sure enough, the actual contribution of the almond to the milky mixture is about 2 percent. But then if you weigh a bottle of actual skim milk, you find that even milk from a cow is over 96 percent water and only about 3 percent cow.

So if you really want an almond drink that’s 100 percent almond, you don’t need to go to court. Just eat an almond and wash it down with three glasses of water.