![]() ![]() Our blood tests are Online Supermarket invites you to shop for a wide variety of gourmet kosher foods available at our kosher store:Ħ8-18 Main Street, Queens, NY 11367 P: (718) 268-6469 My husband and I alternate drinking rice milk, goat milk, and prune juice everyday. I am elderly, live in Florida and prepare meals like my aunt taught me. My aunt gave me a paper sack healthy lunch. She was a Baptist and told me Baptist don’t drink (alcohol) I lived with my aunt and uncle and I was always the best athlete in my class. Often she cut up peeled apples or ripe banana and drizzled sesame Tahini on it. Lunch at home was a plate with cottage cheese, a few raisins and carrot sticks. Most dinners were vegetarian salads, brown rice or baked potatoes with butter. She gave us Shelton Farm Chicken Frank’s on a 7 grain bun with sprouts. My aunt made chicken curry about once a month using a can of creamed soup, Shelton Farm chicken and curry powder served on white rice. What Whole Foods and Trader Joes sells is not health foods. My aunt took me to a small health food market during the 1950’s and 60’s in the San Fernando Valley, CA. I avoid ALL coconut and dried fruits products, canned, cartons, packages and bakery items because coconut and dried fruits are often treated with sulfites and this is not always written on the labels. More expensive, more suitable for desserts. Cream – Lots more coconut – less water.Suitable for soups and curries – and cheaper than coconut cream. ![]() Milk – More coconut than light, less coconut that cream.In many cases it may be uneconomic to buy. It just means less coconut (typically half of normal milk) and more water. Light / lite / reduced fat – Coconut is (by nature) a fatty food, so to appease consumers – there is a light version.Canned Coconut Milk vs Cream vs LightĬoconut milk in cans is for cooking. Very few beverages contain this now – most using guar gum or gellan gum to assist with texture. Regarded as safe by the FDA, but some people reported gastro-intestinal issues. CarrageenanĬarrageenan is a texturizing additive derived from seaweed that used to be in most plant-based beverages. Vitamin A can build up in the body to toxic levels, but this is very rare and you’d be need to drinking a lot of the beverage. People who consume a diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables will already be getting an adequate supply. This is a way to supplement vitamin A and is generally considered safe. Questionable ingredients in coconut milk beverages Vitamin A Palmitate Water, Coconut Cream, Tricalcium Phosphate, Carrageenan, Gellan Gum, Sea Salt, Natural Flavors, Vitamin D2, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin B12.īuy at Amazon How do coconut milk beverages compare with other milks?Ĭoconut milks tend to be lower in calories and sugar, but higher in fat compared to other plant-based milks. Vanilla has 90 calories, 7 g sugar, 5 g fat, 0 g protein per one-cup serving.Unsweetened has 60 calories, 0 g sugar, 5 g fat, 0 g protein per one-cup serving.One of the few plant-based beverages to still use carageenan. These cans are BPA-free, and have simple ingredients without additives. Some are slightly sweetened, and others are fortified with vitamins.īrands to avoid is Coconut Dream (uses carrageenan). Coconut is itself high in fat, so the beverages are heavily diluted. What are the best coconut milk beverages (cartons)?ĭetermining the healthiest is not easy. Used for drinking (as a cow’s milk alternative). ![]()
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