SO Delicious Coconut Milk Yogurt Is At Whole Foods

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:52 pm

I was delighted to find that the same company that makes Purely Decadent Coconut Milk Ice Cream just came out with a line of coconut milk yogurt. Whole Foods was selling raspberry, strawberry, blueberry, chocolate and vanilla, plus a few other flavors for 75 cents each, regular price is 99 cents. It is made by Turtle Mountain http://www.purelydecadent.com/products/ ... ogurt.html

I tried the strawberry flavor yesterday and it wasn't bad. Not as creamy as regular yogurt and not as much of a tang, but it did taste much better than the Ricera yogurt.

Here are the ingredients on the blueberry flavor:
Water, coconut milk, blueberries, evaporated cane juice, pectin, chicory rootextract, dextrose, natural flavors, algin (kelp extract), magnesium phosphate, tricalcium phosphate, rice starch, locust bean gum, agar, culture, carrageenan, guar gum, dipotassium phosphate, vitamin B12.

The label specifically states it's soy free. It has 6 active & live cultures.

Nutrients: Calcium: 25%, Iron: 6%, Vitamin B12: 30%, Magnesium 25%.

Gloria

Post by **tex** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:12 pm

Hmmmmmm. That sounds interesting.

Thanks for the info.

Tex

Matthew · Post by **Matthew** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:21 pm

Gloria

Saw a coconut milk yogurt in my local health food store a few months ago, it might be the same one , and actually started drooling. LOL

Until I read the label . I know I react to carrageenan, a sea weed extract and was so unsure of algin (kelp extract) that seems so close to the same thing and then natural flavors that could be almost anything ????

There were just to many questions in my mind to buy it ... so I didn’t.
Hope you report that it works on your diet. To much of a chance on mine.

Coconut milk by itself is something I use to make sauces on occasion or in seafood soup. It was just all those pesky additions. It doesn’t take much to tip my balance sometimes and have learned to stay on the safe side where I feel so good.

I can live vicariously. LOL So if it works out let us all know. I still love the idea.

To your continued recovery

Love

Matthew

Dee · Post by **Dee** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:13 am

Hi Gloria
I buy both the yogurt & the coconut milk ice cream all of the time. I find if you buy the ice cream at Whole Foods by the case, they give you 10% off the cost.
I love the vanilla bean ice cream...
Now, hopefully in the near future we'll be able to find the Earth Balance, soy free butter..

Dee~~``

Polly · Post by **Polly** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:53 am

Thanks for the tip, Gloria! Unfortunately, like Matthew, I have trouble with carrageenan. Sometimes for a special treat I eat some Sharon's coconut sorbet, but only rarely. It is awesome tasting.

I read somewhere that while xanthan gum is usually well-tolerated, guar gum causes diarrhea in some.

Dee, I'm keeping my eyes peeled for the Earth Balance spread. What's in that ice cream???

Love,

Polly

Dee · Post by **Dee** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:30 pm

Ingredients in the coconut milk ice cream:
Organic coconut milk
Organic agave syrup
Chicory root extract
Carob bean gum
Guar gum
Vanilla extract
Natural flavor
Vanilla bean specks

Post by **tex** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:54 pm

Hmmmmm. That looks pretty good. It's possible that the natural flavor could contain barley, (malt), of course, but with the current labeling law, it can no longer contain wheat or soy, at least.

Tex

Dee · Post by **Dee** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:58 pm

Now, I'm going to email them and ask them just what the derivative of the natural flavor is.
That didn't even cross my mind...

Love
Dee~~

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:13 pm

Yes, the coconut ice cream is delicious. I don't recall any problems with it, but it has a smaller list of ingredients.

I wrote in another thread that I had a reaction yesterday. Since I ate Easter dinner (only ham and turkey) at someone else's house, I don't know whether to attribute it to the dinner or the coconut yogurt I had at home that night. I will try it again in a few days. I don't want to experiment with too many things right now because I'm off Entocort.

Gloria

Post by **tex** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:42 pm

Maybe the turkey was injected with butter, or basted with it. Most hams are probably injected with something, these days, also. Decades ago,when we used to process our own pork, we cured the hams by rubbing them with sugar cure, and sometimes we injected some of it, in the later years.

Tex

Polly · Post by **Polly** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:19 am

Hi good buddies!

Dee, I'll be interested in what you find.

Gloria, I think Tex has a good point. Even with Boar's Head deli meats, there are only 3 that I can eat.

Love,

Polly

Dee · Post by **Dee** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:44 pm

Well!! Here is the reply that received from Purely Decadent..

Dee · Post by **Dee** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:48 pm

Well!! Here is the reply that I received from Turtle Mountain or Purely Decadent about their coconut milk ice cream and what the natural flavor is derived from.

Thank you for your email regarding our products. I am sorry to say that our natural flavoring ingredients are proprietary information. I can however tell you that it does not contain any gluten, MSG or corn products.

What the hell is there to hide from anybody that is so confidential???????
Honestly, it makes me laugh!! Like I'm going to try to copycat it or sell it to someone..
I'm sorry but to me it's plain :BSFlag:

with any company refusing to tell the consumer what is in their product...

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:50 pm

I agree with you, Dee.

Since they didn't mention it............ Soy isn't normally used as a "natural flavor" ingredient is it. I wouldn't think so, but thought I'd ask.

Love, Shirley

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:51 pm

The ice cream label states right on the front that there is no dairy and no soy in the product. If it had soy in it, I would react, I can tell you that. I just ate some - I love the chocolate! It is expensive, though - I pay $5.69 for a pint.

Gloria