Cow milk contains essential nutrients, such as protein, vitamins, phosphorus, and calcium. Plant-based milk often lacks or contains fewer amounts of these nutrients. The protein quality of cow milk is generally higher than plant-based milk because it has more complete arrays of essential amino acids.
Plant-based milk is often fortified with nutrients; the [simple_tooltip text=bioavailability tooltip=The rate at which the entire dosage of the drug reaches the target site to carry out its effects ] varies across brands and is often not known precisely. The presence of sugar and other additives and dilution of milk are some other concerns with plant-based milk that make them nutritionally inferior to whole cow milk (19).