Are there any GF non dairy powder coffee creamers available?

[IDreamInColor]

I'm not a huge coffee drinker, but with the cool fall days approaching I do love an occasional cup of coffee. I am wondering if anyone has found a non dairy powder coffee creamor?

[adelie]

Ah, one of my marketing pet peeves. How can it be that a product is almost 100% casein and the manufacturer be allowed to market it as non-dairy? Yet, if you check the label of most "non-dairy" creamers in the general grocery store, that's what you'll find. They might be lactose free, but they're definitely not non-dairy. Anyway, most that I've found are soy based which a lot of people are sensitive to as well. If you're lucky and can tolerate soy, they're listed below:

Nature's Flavors makes one that is rice and soy based:
http://www.naturesflavors.com/product_i ... ts_id/4647

Dixie Diner's Soy Creme It:
http://www.dixiediner.com/fat-not-creme ... -p-38.html

Then there's SoyGo - another soy based:
http://www.savingopusone.com/store.html

And I'm not exactly sure what makes this one "creamy". It's called Taam-Tov instant creamer:
http://www.veganstore.com/442.html

I have only tried the Dixie Diner one so far. I have tried other Nature's Flavors products and many have an off taste that I don't like. I've tried many more regular "milk" powders over time and I gave up trying to get something that starts in powder form to stay dissolved. I even tried adding a little vegetable gum powder to the mix to see if it would help keep it dissolved with only minimal success so far, though the vegetable gums are so strong in their thickening power that it's tough to get the amount right when experimenting in single doses (which is what I was doing).

Karen

[mbeezie]

So Delicious makes a coconut based coffee creamer, but it is liquid not powder. It comes in a variety of flavors.

Mary Beth

[Linda in BC]

I hear you about the casein in coffee whiteners! That marketing ploy- blatant lie or whatever it is, cost me 7 years of suffering with non-stop D. Back in the 90's I was trying to figure out my intolerances and had eliminated all dairy products, ( I thought) but was using Coffeemate. When I didn't see any improvement I assumed dairy was not the problem and it was another 7 years before I found out there was dairy in coffee mate, and took another look at dairy again as an offender. It turned out I am (extremely) casein intolerant.

Your question about creamers has hit on what seems to be my life long quest these days! If you can tolerate soy, Silk makes a really wonderful coffee creamer (that to me tastes almost like real cream. ) Unfortunately I am avoiding soy these days, in an effort to find out what other things are bothering me, so had to give it up. I have tried a potato based coffee whitener called Dari-free- I would not recommend it.. very expensive and a bit like putting dissolved cornstarch in your coffee!
Right now I use SILK Almond milk. It is creamier than other brands of Almond milk and because it comes in two quart containers, is cheaper than the SILK coffee creamer, although you have to use quite a bit to get that real "creamy" texture.

Linda