SO Delicious Dairy Free Coconut Milk

[Zizzle]

Here's an article form the "Food Babe": http://foodbabe.com/2012/05/22/watch-ou ... anic-food/

And an excellent chart of foods with and without carrageenan. Lucky for me, I can still buy Almond Milk from Trader Joe's and Whole Foods 365 line!

http://www.cornucopia.org/shopping-guid ... rrageenan/

[tex]

That's an excellent article (in spite of the fact that she continually misspells "undegraded" as "undergraded"), but she obviously does not understand the principle behind organic certification.

I assumed that once a product was certified organic like Pacific Almond Milk, that it was perfectly safe to drink.

Organic simply means produced without the use of synthetic inputs. The concept has nothing to do with food safety. A food could be loaded with natural arsenic, and still be organic. Food safety is an entirely independent concept that applies to all food, not just organic.

That's just one of many reasons why I don't go out of my way to buy organic products.

Tex

[ldubois7]

Great list Zizzle! It will come in very handy!
Thanks!

[Zizzle]

she obviously does not understand the principle behind organic certification.

I noticed that too, but it makes me think lots of people look for "Organic" labels thinking they are 100% good for you. Sigh.

I remembered the ingredient used to replace carageenan is TJs and Whole Foods almond milk: GELLAN GUM. Is there any reason to think it is safer than carageenan? Sounds suspicious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gellan_gum

[Zizzle]

This seems promising...but could it contribute to D?

Food Addit Contam. 1988 Jul-Sep;5(3):237-49.

The dietary effects of gellan gum in humans.
Anderson DM, Brydon WG, Eastwood MA.
Source
Chemistry Department, University, Edinburgh, UK.

Abstract
Following a 7-day control period, five female and five male volunteers consumed a weight of gellan gum corresponding to 175 mg/kg body weight for 7 days, followed by 200 mg gellan gum per kg body weight for a further 16 days. Measurements before and at the end of the 23-day test period showed that the gellan gum acted as a faecal bulking agent for the male volunteers and for four of the females. Dietary transit time increased for 2 females and 2 males, and decreased for 3 females and 3 males. Faecal bile acid concentrations increased for 4 females and for 4 males; the average increases were from 0.69 to 0.83 mmol/24 h (females) and from 1.22 to 1.44 mmol/24 h (males). Gellan gum ingestion had no significant effect on (a) plasma biochemistry parameters; (b) haematological indices; (c) urinalysis parameters; (d) blood glucose and plasma insulin concentrations; (e) breath hydrogen concentrations. There were no significant changes in HDL cholesterol, triglyceride or phospholipid concentrations. Serum cholesterol concentrations decreased significantly (P less than 0.1) by 13% on average for females, and by 12%, on average, for males. The data indicate that the ingestion of gellan gum at a high level for 23 days caused no adverse dietary or physiological effects in any of the volunteers. In particular, the enzymatic and other indicators of adverse toxicological effects remained unchanged.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3294053

[tex]

It sort of reminds me of xanthan gum.

Tex

[JFR]

Coconut milk and other nut milks need gelling agents like carrageenan so that they won't separate. I get coconut milk that is 100% coconut, no additives, and when opened the components have separated. Shaking it or stirring it fixes that. Seems a pretty simple solution. Here's an article by Dr Weil about carrageenan.

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA401181/I ... -Safe.html

This is the last sentence of his article:

All told, I recommend avoiding regular consumption of foods containing carrageenan. This is especially important advice for persons with inflammatory bowel disease.

Jean

[lorimoose]

I hate to give this up....but I will. So Delicious was the first non dairy creamer that was really good in my morning cup of decaf. It was like the good old days of half and half. It was the right consistency and the right flavor. OY!

Lori

[Leah]

Silk brand must have changed their formula since that was wriiten because it doesn't have it any more. I have some in my fridge right now. it does have gellan gum.

leah