Milk Alternatives
Always read ingredient lists carefully. Carrageenan may be present in the final product but not listed on the ingredients label when it is used as a “processing aid,” for example in cream. We recommend contacting the company directly if you would like to confirm whether carrageenan is in the final product. Read more on processing aids here, and view USDA safe and suitable ingredients here.
Note: The law does not require ingredients to be listed on alcoholic beverages, and carrageenan is commonly used to clarify beer.
You can contact companies in the left column using the links provided.
Please note that all brands listed with an asterisk (*) supply products both with and without carrageenan.
Organic Dairy
| Buttermilk with Carrageenan | Buttermilk without Carrageenan |
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| (Organic buttermilk producers that used to add carrageenan have reformulated their products to be carrageenan-free) |
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| Chocolate Milk With Carrageenan | Chocolate Milk without Carrageenan |
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| Cottage Cheese with Carrageenan | Cottage Cheese without Carrageenan |
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| Cream with Carrageenan | Cream without Carrageenan |
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| Eggnog with Carrageenan | Eggnog without Carrageenan |
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| Ice Cream with Carrageenan | Ice Cream without Carrageenan |
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| Kefir with Carrageenan | Kefir without Carrageenan |
| No organic kefir found with carrageenan – carrageenan is sometimes used in conventional kefir |
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| Shelf-Stable Milk with Carrageenan (“milk boxes”) | Shelf-Stable Milk without Carrageenan (“milk boxes”) |
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| Sour Cream with Carrageenan | Sour Cream without Carrageenan |
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| Yogurt with Carrageenan | Yogurt without Carrageenan |
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Organic Dairy Alternative
| Almond Milk with Carrageenan | Almond Milk without Carrageenan |
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| Cheese Alternative with Carrageenan | Cheese Alternative without Carrageenan |
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| Chocolate Soymilk with Carrageenan | Chocolate Soymilk without Carrageenan |
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| Coconut Milk with Carrageenan | Coconut Milk without Carrageenan |
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| Coconut Water with Carrageenan | Coconut Water without Carrageenan |
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| Coffee Creamer with Carrageenan | Coffee Creamer without Carrageenan |
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| Frozen Dessert (non-dairy) with Carrageenan | Frozen Dessert (non-dairy) without Carrageenan |
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| Hemp Milk with Carrageenan | Hemp Milk without Carrageenan |
| No organic hemp milk found with carrageenan. |
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| Oat Milk with Carrageenan | Oat Milk without Carrageenan |
| No organic oat beverages found with carrageenan. |
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| Rice Milk with Carrageenan | Rice Milk without Carrageenan |
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| Soymilk with Carrageenan | Soymilk without Carrageenan |
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| “Yogurt” (Non-Dairy) with Carrageenan | “Yogurt” (Non-Dairy) without Carrageenan |
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Organic Nutritional Drinks & Supplements
| Nutritional Drinks and Supplements with Carrageenan | Nutritional Drinks and Supplements without Carrageenan |
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Organic Deli Meat
| Deli Meat with Carrageenan | Deli Meat without Carrageenan |
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Organic Dips
| Dips with Carrageenan | Dips without Carrageenan |
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Organic Juice
| Juice with Carrageenan | Juice without Carrageenan |
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Organic Prepared Foods
| Desserts/Snacks with Carrageenan | Desserts/Snacks without Carrageenan |
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| Pizza with Carrageenan | Pizza without Carrageenan |
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| Prepared Meals with Carrageenan | Prepared Meals without Carrageenan |
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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/Candy Bars
- Enjoy Life ChocoBoom™ Ricemilk and Ricemilk Crunch
- PayDay Bar
Chocolate Milk/Powder
- Borden (also eggnog and other flavors)
- Carnation Breakfast Essentials
- Garelick TruMoo™
- Hood Simply Smart
- Cold Stone Creamery
- Nestle Nesquik
- Ovaltine
- Promised Land (also eggnog and other flavors)
- Stop ‘n Shop
Coffee Beverages
- Caribou (iced cofee in the can)
- Coconut Cafe
- International Delight
- Starbucks drinks with soymilk
Coffee Creamer and Half and Half
- Dairygold
- Fresh Market half & half
- Friendly Farms
- Great Value (Walmart) half & half – please read the label, some may be on the market without carrageenan
- Hood Fat Free coffee creamer
- International Delight coffee creamer
- King Island Coconut Milk coffee creamer
- Meadowgold
- Nestle Coffeemate, liquid (Only “Natural Bliss” full fat flavors are carrageenan-free)
- Silk non-dairy coffee creamer
- So Nice non-dairy coffee creamer
Dairy (cottage cheese, sour cream, ricotta cheese, yogurt, etc.)
- Activia (yogurt)
- Big Y Foods (part skim ricotta cheese)
- Brown Cow (some yogurts)
- Byblos yogurt
- Byrne Dairy (ultra-pasteurized half & half)
- Cabot (sweetened light whipped cream, nonfat yogurt)
- Carnation (evaporated milk and Breakfast Essentials)
- Dannon (Oikos yogurt)
- Darigold
- Dean’s (cottage cheese)
- Dragone (ricotta cheese)
- Fit & Active (yogurt)
- Friendship (non-fat cottage cheese)
- Garelick Farms (cream, eggnog, whipped topping)
- Great Value (Walmart)
- Happy Farms (Aldi Foods)
- Kemps (sour cream and cottage cheese)
- Kraft (cottage cheeses and Philadelphia fat free cream cheese)
- Kroger (CARBmaster nonfat milk)
- LACTAID (Calcium enriched milk, chocolate milk, eggnog)
- Land O’ Lakes (aerosol whipped cream, sour cream and cottage cheese)
- Lucerne (heavy whipping cream)
- Mid-America Farms
- Nestle (Carnation evaporated milk)
- Oakhurst (heavy cream)
- Oberweis (chocolate milk)
- Old Home Foods (sour cream, fat-free cottage cheese)
- Pathmark (skim supreme)
- Promised Land (whipping cream)
- Reddi-Wip
- Roundy’s (heavy whipping cream, cottage cheese, evaporated milk, more)
- Shamrock Farms (cottage cheese and skim plus)
- Sinton’s (whipping cream)
- Starbucks (yogurt, whipped cream)
- Trader Joe’s
- coffee creamer
- cottage cheese
- many frozen dairy desserts
- shelf-stable whipping cream
- sour cream
- Twin Brook Creamery (choclate milk and eggnog)
- Westby (sour cream, yogurt, etc.)
- Yogurtland
Dairy Alternatives
Also see organic dairy alternatives in table at top of page for alternative beverages
- 8th Continent soymilk
- Almond Breeze (Blue Diamond) – Watch ingredients labels: Blue Diamond has removed carrageenan as of 2016
- Almond Dream
- almond milk: original, unsweetened, vanilla, and unsweetened vanilla
- frozen dessert
- Archer Farms soymilk – Target
- Bolthouse Farms soynog
- Blue Monkey coconut milk
- Califia Farms almond milk – Watch ingredients labels: Califia has removed carrageenan at the end of 2015
- Chai Nog (Oregon Chai) soynog
- Coconut Dream coconut beverages
- Earth’s Own Almond Fresh almond milk
- Engine 2 Plant-Strong almond milk
- Flax USA flax milk
- Friendly Farms almond milk (Aldi)
- Great Value almond milk (Walmart)
- Greenway unsweetened almond milk
- Nature’s Place almond milk (unsweetened original and unsweetened vanilla)
- Pacific Foods
- hazelnut millk
- hemp milk: unsweetened original, unsweetened vanilla and chocolate
- rice milk
- soymilk: all natural Select original and vanilla, all natural ultra original and vanilla
- Rice Dream
- frozen dessert
- horchata
- original unsweetened enriched refrigerated rice drink
- Ryza rice milk
- Silk
- coconutmilk
- soymilk and chocolate soymilk
- soynog
- Simple Truth Coconutmilk – Kroger
- Simpli Oat Shakes (chocolate and coffee flavors only)
- Simply Balanced almond milk (Target)
- So Delicious (almond milk plus protein)
- So Nice soymilk (all flavors except natural)
- Sol (Sunrich Naturals) sunflower milk
- Soy Dream
- frozen dessert
- soymilk: enriched vanilla and enriched original
- Soy Slender (Westsoy) soymilk and chocolate soymilk
- Starbucks (soymilk and cream may contain carrageenan, varies by store)
- Sunflower Dream sunflower milk
- Sunsational sunflower milk
- Trader Joe’s
- coconut milk
- Soy Creamy frozen dessert
- many other frozen desserts
- Tofutti (all products)
- Zico cocunut beverage (chocolate flavored)
Dairy-Free Cheese, Dips and Spreads
- Butte Island Foods
- Daiya (cheese slices; not cream cheese, cheese wedges or shredded cheese)
- Dean’s
- Go Veggie Foods
- Lisanatti Foods – (reformulating to remove carrageenan, perhaps in mid-2016)
- Marzetti’s Otria Greek Yogurt Veggie Dips (all flavors)
- Marzetti’s Veggie Dips (all flavors)
- Shullsburg Creamery
- Soy Kaas
- Trader Joe’s
Desserts
- Dandies Vegan Marshmallows
- Fresh & Easy Pudding
- General Mills Fruit Gushers
- Kozy Shack
- Kraft Minute Tapioca
- Little Debbie oatmeal snack cakes
- Open Nature fruit and vegetable juice bars (Safeway)
- Trader Joe’s dark chocolate covered caramels
- Yasso Frozen Greek Yogurt
- Yoplait Frozen Greek Yogurt
Dressings (Salad)
- Bolthouse Farms Yogurt
Ice Cream & Frozen Desserts
- 365 (Whole Foods) Frozen Fruit Bars
- Ben and Jerry’s
- Blue Bell Creameries
- Blue Bunny
- Breyer’s
- Chapman’s
- Ciao Bella Gelato
- Coldstone Creamery
- Dairy Queen
- Double Rainbow Sorbet
- Edy’s
- Friendly’s
- Hood
- Kemp’s
- LaLoo’s goat milk ice cream
- Lopez Island Creamery
- Perry’s
- Publix
- Purple Door Ice Cream
- Sassy Cow Creamery
- Schwan’s
- Snickers Ice Cream Bars
- Tillamook
- Turkey Hill (Premium flavors only)
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
- Aidells (lunchmeat)
- Aldi (Fit & Active turkey breast and ham, Lunch Mate smoked ham)
- Butterball (chicken breast strips)
- Columbus Naturals (oven roasted turkey)
- Hormel (Natural Choice deli meats)
- Kroger (raw chicken)
- Oscar Meyer (Deli-Fresh)
- Vita (Herring in Real Sour Cream)
Nutrition Bars
- Balance Bars
Nutritional Drinks, Supplements and Teas
Please note that gel caps often contain carrageenan
- Atkins ready to drink shake
- Blue Bonnet Liquid Calcium Magnesium Citrate Plus Vitamin D3 (listed as “sea vegetable extract”)
- Bolthouse Farms Protein PLUS and Perfectly Protein
- Carnation Breakfast Essentials
- dōTERRA gel caps
- Dr. Ohhira’s Probiotics
- EAS 100% Whey Protein Powder
- Ensure
- Nestle Boost
- Odwalla protein drinks
- Ovega-3 (in capsules)
- PediaSure
- Premier Protein Shake
- Pure Protein Shake
- Six Star Pro Nutrition Instant Protein Smoothie
- Slim Fast
- Solgar calcium-magnesium citrate liquid
- Yogi Green Tea Super Antioxidant
- Young Living Oils gel caps
- ZICO Coconut Water (chocolate)
Prepared Foods
- Birds Eye Voila! Chicken Florentine
- Buitoni Mushroom Agnolotti
- Butterball Frozen Fully Cooked Turkey
- Campbell’s (100% Natural Creamy Gouda Bisque, Chunky Chicken Noodle Soup)
- Dempster’s tortillas
- Gardenburger Malibu Burger
- Gerber Graduates kids’ meals (ravioli)
- Healthy Choice
- Marie Callender’s pot pies
- Rosetto Ravioli
- Stouffer’s (meat loaf and fried chicken frozen dinners)
- Trader Joe’s (chicken and cheese tamales)
- Yves Veggie Cuisine
- many grocery store rotisserie chickens (this is not a brand, but a note to check product ingredients)
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