Gwyneth Paltrow Uses Arugula as a Dairy Substitute

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Gwyneth Paltrow has a legen-dairy cooking hack.

The Oscar winner—who founded her health food chain Goop Kitchen in 2021—revealed the unexpected ingredient she recommends using in place of dairy.

"If you want to avoid dairy," Paltrow, 53, told Today Show cohosts Savannah Guthrie and Carson Daly during a May 27 cooking segment, "one trick that I do is I dice up arugula and I put it in.”

She put her culinary tip to the test while making gluten-free, grain-free turkey meatballs on air, noting that the greens would work as a substitute for the cup of parmesan cheese she used in the Goop Kitchen recipe.

"It sounds weird," Paltrow assured a stunned Guthrie, "but it kind of adds a nice texture to it, and it's delicious.”

While the morning show hosts were open to Paltrow's unconventional replacement, some Today viewers had strong opinions about the wellness guru's go-to.

"When I don’t have milk for my pancake mix," one user quipped on Instagram with a shrugging emoji, "I just add lawn clippings."

Another took the joke even further, writing, "If my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bike!"

Still, some fans understood Paltrow's culinary vision. "It sounds odd but I think it’s out of context," one person added to the conversation. "Instead of adding grated parmigiano, you can absolutely add diced arugula. This will lighten the texture and add flavor and moisture."

And it's not the first time Paltrow has set the internet ablaze by sharing her eating habits.

"I really like soup for lunch," Paltrow explained on The Art Of Well Being Podcast in 2023, elaborating that her ideal lunch before a daily one-hour sweat session is "bone broth for a lot of the days."

However, the fitness lover also isn’t afraid to treat herself, like when she experimented with cocktails during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Paltrow revealed her favorite cocktail at the time was "this great quinoa whiskey from this distillery in Tennessee with maple syrup and lemon juice, and it's just heaven," as she told Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes on the SmartLess podcast in 2021, concluding that she would "have two of those every night of quarantine."

After all, the Goop lifestyle brand owner knows how to indulge a craving when she feels like it.

"A friend came over [last night] and I ate a chocolate-covered Oreo. That is trans fats to the max. That’s, like, seed oils all the way,” Paltrow told British Vogue in 2025 about the last time she consumed junk food, adding, “I love it. I think it’s all about balance. Going too strongly in any direction is never good.”

Read on to revisit Paltrow's colorful career from the very beginning.

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