Wednesday, August 22, 2012

IS IT REALLY ORGANIC? SHOPPING GUIDE LIST - CARAGEENAN IN ORGANICS - HERE

Shopping Guide to Avoiding Organic Foods with Carrageenan

If you suffered from gastrointestinal symptoms that improved or disappeared after cutting carrageenan from your diet, fill out a questionnaire to help us and medical researchers better understand the effects of carrageenan on public health.
Always check ingredient lists carefully, and note that ingredients are not required by law to be listed on alcoholic beverages, which may contain carrageenan. In fact, carrageenan is commonly used to clarify beer but is not listed on the label.
If you come across organic products and/or brands utilizing Carrageenan that are not yet listed, please forward specific information to us by emailing cultivate@cornucopia.org

Organic Dairy

Buttermilk with Carrageenan Buttermilk without Carrageenan
  • Natural By Nature
  • Clover Stornetta
  • Friendship Brand
  • Kalona Supernatural
  • Organic Valley
Chocolate Milk With Carrageenan Chocolate Milk without Carrageenan
  • Clover Stornetta
  • Horizon
  • Kalona Supernatural (Kalona has committed to removing carrageenan, and will be carrageenan-free by the end of 2012. Check ingredients list)
  • Natural By Nature
  • Organic Valley
  • Publix
  • Simply Smart
  • Castle Rock Organic Farms
  • Crystal Ball Farms
  • Strafford Organic Creamery
  • Trickling Springs Creamery
Cottage Cheese with Carrageenan Cottage Cheese without Carrageenan
  • 365 Whole Foods (lowfat and fat free)
  • Clover Stornetta
  • Friendship Brand
  • Horizon (regular and lowfat)
  • Publix
  • Trader Joe’s
  • Kalona Supernatural (regular and lowfat)
  • Nancy’s
  • Organic Valley (regular and lowfat)
Cream with Carrageenan Cream without Carrageenan
  • Clover Stornetta (whipped cream in a can)
  • Horizon
  • Natural by Nature (whipped cream in a can)
  • Organic Valley (Ultra Pasteurized)
  • Publix
  • Butterworks Farm
  • Cedar Summit Farm
  • Clover Stornetta
  • Kalona Supernatural
  • Natural By Nature (heavy cream)
  • Organic Valley (Pasteurized)
  • Strauss Family Creamery
  • Trickling Springs Creamery
Eggnog with Carrageenan Eggnog without Carrageenan
  • Clover Stornetta
  • Organic Valley (Organic Valley has committed to removing carrageenan from its eggnog by the end of 2012)
  • Kalona Supernatural
  • Strauss Family Creamery
Ice Cream with Carrageenan Ice Cream without Carrageenan
  • Julie’s (mint fudge, mocha fudge and peanut butter fudge flavors only)
  • Alden’s
  • Ben and Jerry’s Organic
  • Castle Rock Organic Farms
  • Crystal Ball Farms
  • Green and Black’s Organic
  • Julie’s (all flavors except mint fudge, mocha java and peanut butter fudge)
  • Publix
  • Stonyfield
  • Strafford Organic Creamery
  • Strauss Family Creamery
  • Three Twins
Kefir with Carrageenan Kefir without Carrageenan
(No organic kefir found with carrageenan – carrageenan is sometimes used in conventional kefir)
  • Butterworks Farm
  • Cedar Summit (pourable yogurt)
  • Fresh Made
  • Helios
  • Lifeway
  • Nancy’s
  • Organic Pastures
  • Organic Valley (pourable yogurt)
Shelf-Stable Milk with Carrageenan (“milk boxes”) Shelf-Stable Milk without Carrageenan (“milk boxes”)
  • Horizon (chocolate, vanilla and strawberry flavors)
  • Organic Valley (chocolate flavored)
  • President’s Choice
  • Horizon (lowfat)
  • Organic Valley (regular, lowfat, strawberry flavored, vanilla)
Sour Cream with Carrageenan Sour Cream without Carrageenan
  • Horizon (lowfat)
  • Natural By Nature
  • Publix
  • 365 Whole Foods
  • Clover Stornetta
  • Friendship Brand
  • Horizon (regular only)
  • Kalona Supernatural
  • Organic Valley (regular and lowfat)
  • Nancy’s
  • Strauss Family Creamery
  • Wallaby Organic
Yogurt with Carrageenan Yogurt without Carrageenan
  • Stonyfield (Oikos – caramel flavor only, Squeezers – all flavors)
  • Horizon (Tuberz™)
  • Butterworks
  • Cedar Summit (pourable)
  • Crystal Balls Farm
  • Hails Family Farm
  • Hawthorne Valley Farm
  • Horizon (all except Tuberz™)
  • Kalona Supernatural
  • Nancy’s
  • Organic Valley (pourable)
  • Redwood Hill Farms
  • Seven Stars
  • Stonyfield (all except caramel Oikos and Squeezers)
  • Straus Family Creamery
  • Wallaby Organic

Dairy Alternative – many of these popular brands are “natural” (conventional) and therefore not organic

Almond Milk with Carrageenan Almond Milk without Carrageenan
  • Almond Breeze (Blue Diamond)
  • Pacific Foods
  • So Delicious
  • Trader Joe’s (aseptic)
  • 365 Whole Foods
  • Almond Dream
  • Natura (8 flavors)
  • OMilk NYC
  • Silk PureAlmond (including chocolate-flavored)
  • Westsoy
  • Trader Joe’s (refrigerated)
Chocolate Soymilk with Carrageenan Chocolate Soymilk without Carrageenan
  • 365 Whole Foods
  • Eden Foods (Eden Foods has committed to removing carrageenan from all its products. Check ingredients list)
  • Good Karma
  • Organic Valley
  • Nature’s Promise
  • Silk
  • Soy Dream
  • Soy Slender
  • Trader Joe’s
  • Westsoy
  • Tofu Shop
  • Silk (in single-serve, shelf-stable packaging)
Coconut Milk/Water with Carrageenan Coconut Milk/Water without Carrageenan
  • Almond Breeze Coconut Blend (Blue Diamond)
  • Coconut Dream
  • Lakewood (juice)
  • Silk Pure Coconut
  • So Delicious
  • Trader Joe’s
  • Zico (chocolate flavored)
  • Amy and Brian (juice)
  • Blue Monkey
  • Coco Libre
  • Knudsen’s (coconut nectar)
  • Naked Juice (coconut water)
  • Native Forest
  • Roland Coconut
  • Thai Kitchen
  • Tropical Traditions (cream)
  • Yoga Earth Purity (powder beverage)
Flax Milk with Carrageenan Flax Milk without Carrageenan
  • 365 Whole Foods
  • Good Karma

Frozen Dessert (non-dairy) with Carrageenan Frozen Dessert (non-dairy) without Carrageenan
  • Almond Dream
  • Good Karma
  • Purely Decadent
  • Rice Dream
  • So Delicious
  • Soy Dream
  • Tempt (Living Harvest)
  • 365 Whole Foods
  • Julie’s
  • Lifeway
  • Luna and Larry’s
  • Nadamoo
  • Natural Choice Fruit Bars
  • Organic Nectars
  • Sambazon
Hazelnut Milk with Carrageenan Hazelnut Milk without Carrageenan
  • Pacific Foods

Hemp Milk with Carrageenan Hemp Milk without Carrageenan
  • Tempt (Living Harvest)
  • Pacific Foods

Oat Milk with Carrageenan Oat Milk without Carrageenan
  • Pacific Foods
  •  Simpli
Rice Milk with Carrageenan Rice Milk without Carrageenan
  • 365 Whole Foods
  • Good Karma
  • Pacific Foods
  • Rice Dream (Unsweetened)
  • Ryza
  • Westsoy
  • B.R.A.T. (all flavors)
  • Nature’s Promise
  • Rice Dream (Original)
  • Trader Joe’s
Soy Creamer with Carrageenan Soy Creamer without Carrageenan
  • Silk
  • Trader Joe’s
  • Wildwood
  • Organic Valley
Soymilk with Carrageenan Soymilk without Carrageenan
  • 365 Whole Foods
  • 8th Continent
  • Earth Balance
  • Great Value (Walmart)
  • Nature’s Promise
  • O Organics – Safeway (refrigerated original and vanilla)
  • Organic Valley
  • Pearl Soymilk (Kikkoman)
  • Pacific Foods
  • Publix
  • Silk
  • Soy Dream
  • Soy Slender
  • Sunrich
  • Trader Joe’s
  • Vermont Soy
  • Vitasoy
  • Wegman’s
  • Westsoy (Organic Plus, Nonfat)
  • Wildwood
  • ZenSoy
  • Eden Soy (Eden Foods has committed to removing carrageenan from all its products. Currently, most soymilk is already carrageenan-free, but EdenBlend and chocolate flavored soymilk still contains carrageenan. Check ingredients list)
  • Westsoy (original, unsweetened, lowfat)
Soynog with Carrageenan Soynog without Carrageenan
  • Earth Balance

Sunflower Milk with Carrageenan Sunflower Milk without Carrageenan
  • Sunrich Naturals
  • Sunsational
  • Sol

Organic Nutritional Drinks

Nutritional Drinks with Carrageenan Nutritional Drinks without Carrageenan
  • Orgain
  • B.R.A.T.
  • PediaSmart

Organic Deli Meat

Deli Meat with Carrageenan Deli Meat without Carrageenan
  • Applegate (Packaged and Sliced: Roasted Chicken, Turkey Breast, Roasted Turkey Breast, Smoked Chicken, Smoked Turkey Breast)
  • Applegate (Roast Beef, Genoa Salami, Uncured Ham)

Organic Dips

Dips with Carrageenan Dips without Carrageenan
  • Natural By Nature (French Onion Dip)
  • Marzetti’s Organic Ranch Veggie Dip
  • Simply Organic Dip Mixes

Organic Juice

Juice with Carrageenan Juice without Carrageenan
  • Knudsen’s (Yumberry)
  • Lakewood (Acai Amazon Berry and Coconut)
  • Apple and Eve
  • Columbia Gorge
  • Honest Kids
  • Knudsen’s (all flavors except Yumberry)
  • Lakewood (all flavors except Acai Amazon Berry and Coconut)
  • Organic Valley
  • Publix
  • Santa Cruz
  • Uncle Matt’s

Organic Prepared Foods

Pizza with Carrageenan Pizza without Carrageenan
  • Annie’s Organic Frozen Pizza
  • 365 Whole Foods
  • Amy’s (70% organic)
  • Publix
  • Rising Moon Organics (70% organic)
  • Trader Joe’s

AVOID: Conventional/“Natural” Foods with Carrageenan

Below is a partial list of conventional products containing carrageenan. This list is not comprehensive, but provides examples of categories of foods where you may not expect to find carrageenan, like nutrition bars (Balance Bars), chocolate bars (Enjoy Life), and chicken strips (Butterball and Hormel).
Always check ingredients lists carefully when purchasing foods – some of the brands listed below carry products with and without carrageenan (for example, Kraft Philadelphia fat free cream cheese contains carrageenan, whereas Kraft Philadelphia regular cream cheese is carrageenan-free).
Chocolate Bars
  • Enjoy Life ChocoBoom™ Ricemilk and Ricemilk Crunch
Chocolate milk/powder
  • Carnation Breakfast Essentials
  • Garelick TruMoo™
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Nestle Nesquik
  • Ovaltine
  • Stop ‘n Shop
Coffee Creamer and Half and Half
  • Friendly Farms
  • Great Value (Walmart)
  • Hood Fat Free
  • International Delight
  • Nestle Coffeemate (“Natural Bliss” is carrageenan-free)
Conventional Nutrition Drinks
  • Carnation Breakfast Essentials
  • Nestle Boost
  • Pure Protein Shake
  • Slim Fast
Dairy (cottage cheese, sour cream, ricotta cheese, yogurt, etc.)
  • Dragone (ricotta cheese)
  • Garelick (cream)
  • Great Value (Walmart)
  • Kemps (sour cream and cottage cheese)
  • Kraft (cottage cheeses and Philadelphis fat free cream cheese)
  • Land O’ Lakes (sour cream and cottage cheese)
  • Mid-America Farms
  • Old Home Foods (sour cream)
  • Westby (sour cream, yogurt, etc.)
Dairy Alternatives
  • FlaxUSA Flaxmilk (all flavors – available at Walmart)
  • So Delicious
  • Tofutti (all products)
  • Soy Dream frozen desserts
Desserts
  • Kozy Shack
Dips
  • Deans
  • Marzetti’s Otria Greek Yogurt Veggie Dips (all flavors)
  • Marzetti’s Veggie Dips (all flavors)
  • Shullsburg Creamery
Ice Cream
  • Ben and Jerry’s
  • Coldstone Creamery
  • LaLoo’s goat milk ice cream
Iced Coffee
  • International Delight
Infant Formula
Currently all ready-to-drink (liquid) infant formula, except Gerber Good Start, contains carrageenan. Avoid carrageenan in infant formula by buying organic powdered formula.
Meat
  • Butterball (chicken breast strips)
  • Hormel (Natural Choice carved chicken breast)
  • Oscar Meyer (Deli-Fresh)
  • Oscar Meyer (Selects – turkey breast slow roasted)
Nutrition Bars
  • Balance Bars
Prepared Foods
  • Gerber Graduates kids’ meals (ravioli)
  • Healthy Choice
Whipping Cream
last updated on 7/18/2012

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