Actress Rachel Bilson—who played Summer Roberts on popular series The O.C. —is a big fan of oat milk. The star recently partnered with vegan brand Planet Oat to promote its environmentally friendly oat milk, which she uses to make vegan pancakes, fudgsicles, overnight oats, and banana bread. The star spoke with Green Matters about her love of oat milk and the sustainability practices she teaches her six-year-old daughter Briar Rose. “We are avid oatmilk users in our household, and my mom’s vegan, so in her household, too,” Bilson said. “My daughter, we took her off dairy to see if we could help clear up some eczema, and it actually did. All the options have made it so much easier for us to branch out.”
First launched in 2018, Planet Oat is a subsidiary of HP Hood, LLC—a 175-year-old brand known for its dairy products such as Lactaid milk, ice cream, and cottage cheese. The brand was created to tap into consumer demand for a versatile plant-based milk that is more environmentally friendly. The production of oat milk uses far fewer resources, including land and water, than dairy and leads to far fewer greenhouse gas emissions. “This is the only planet we have. We have to take care of it,” Bilson said. “The little things you can do in your life to help and reuse as much as possible is big in our household, and not be wasteful. And I teach my daughter that the most important thing to take care of, other than your body and your health, is our planet. They go hand in hand. One doesn’t exist without the other.”
While the 39-year-old actress is not (yet) vegan, in addition to consuming oat milk regularly, Bilson engages in other sustainable practices such as wearing thrifted and recycled clothing and packing her daughter’s lunch into bento boxes and other reusable containers. “If it’s helping the planet in any way, even the smallest way, I am a huge supporter of that,” Bilson said . Oat milk is everywhere
Bilson isn’t the only one with a healthy oat milk obsession as businesses are putting it on their menus worldwide to meet consumer demand for the plant-based milk. Planet Oat’s oat milk can now be found on the menu at all 9,000 Dunkin’ locations nationwide. Added in August 2020, Dunkin’ tapped another celebrity, vegan influencer Tabitha Brown, to promote the new oat milk […]
