How Much Oxalate Is in Macadamia milk?
mg oxalate
per serving
Serving: 1 cup (240 g)
Verdict: 🟢 Safe
Per 100g: 0.4 mg
Data: Harvard T.H. Chan SPH (2024)
Here's the takeaway: Macadamia milk earns a Safe rating (🟢) at 1 mg oxalate per serving. Being under 25 mg means it fits comfortably in everyday eating. Keep your usual habits — adequate fluids and calcium in meals — and Macadamia milk poses no special concern.
Putting Macadamia milk in context: it lands well below the category average of 3 mg. In the database, 95% of dairy & eggs (87 of 91) fall in the 🟢 Safe group (under 25 mg oxalate/serving). The typical dairy & eggs here averages 3 mg oxalate per serving, so Macadamia milk runs 70% below that baseline. That places it among the lower-oxalate options in its category. Why this matters: the gap between two Safe foods can be wide — one may hold 5 mg oxalate while another sits at 24 mg. The lower one leaves more room in your day. See all dairy & eggs rated Safe for a full side-by-side.
Why does oxalate per 100g matter?
Normalizing to 100 grams removes serving-size differences, so you can judge which food is genuinely denser in oxalate. It matters most when you eat a bigger or smaller portion than the listed serving. Macadamia milk comes in at 1 mg oxalate per 1 cup (Safe) in the measured database.
How accurate is the oxalate measurement?
The measurements use ion chromatography, the accepted reference method for oxalate. That means real lab values for each food rather than inferred numbers. Some natural variation exists between samples, but this is the strongest published data set. For context, Macadamia milk measures 1 mg per 1 cup, rated Safe.
How does this compare to other foods?
Anything under 25 mg per serving is Safe; 25-99 mg is Caution; 100 mg or more is Avoid. The category pages on OxalateWatch list foods side by side, so you can see where this one ranks. Applied to Macadamia milk: 1 mg oxalate per 1 cup — Safe per Harvard (2024).