May 31, 2012



Shopping Guide to Avoiding Organic Foods with Carrageenan

Important note: This is a preliminary review that will be updated in early June, and on a continual basis until our research is complete. Please check back for additional brand listings of products manufactured with and without carrageenan.

[Updated Guide here.]



Carrageenan, a seaweed derivative used as a stabilizer and thickener in foods, has been found to be contaminated with a substance (degraded carrageenan) that is classified by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer as a “possible human carcinogen.” Research funded by the National Institutes of Health raises serious concerns about harmful effects of carrageenan as an inflammatory agent on the human gastrointestinal tract.

Individuals suffering from chronic gastrointestinal symptoms have reported that their symptoms disappeared when they cut carrageenan out of their diets. Note: We ask consumers whose problems with ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome or other inflammatory gastrointestinal disease were resolved by removing carrageenan from their diets to please contact us.

To read Cornucopia’s in-depth analysis of the scientific literature pointing to serious human health impacts of food-grade carrageenan, please click here.

Dairy



Chocolate Milk with Carrageenan Chocolate Milk without Carrageenan Horizon

Organic Valley Castle Rock Organic Farms

Crystal Ball Farms

Strafford Organic Creamery

Trickling Springs Creamery Cottage Cheese with Carrageenan Cottage Cheese without Carrageenan 365 Whole Foods

Horizon Nancy’s

Organic Valley Cream with Carrageenan Cream without Carrageenan Horizon

Organic Valley (Ultra Pasteurized) Butterworks Farm

Cedar Summit Farm

Organic Valley (Pasteurized)

Straus Family Creamery

Trickling Springs Creamery Eggnog with Carrageenan Eggnog without Carrageenan Organic Valley Straus Family Creamery Ice Cream with Carrageenan Ice Cream without Carrageenan Commonly found in conventional ice cream. Alden’s

Castle Rock Organic Farms

Crystal Ball Farms

Green and Black’s Organic

Julie’s

Stonyfield

Strafford Organic Creamery

Straus Family Creamery Kefir with Carrageenan Kefir without Carrageenan Commonly found in conventional kefir Fresh Made

Helios

Lifeway

Nancy’s

Organic Pastures Shelf-Stable Milk with Carrageenan (“milk boxes”) Shelf-Stable Milk without Carrageenan (“milk boxes”) Horizon (chocolate, vanilla and strawberry flavors)

Organic Valley (chocolate flavored) Horizon (lowfat)

Organic Valley (regular, lowfat, strawberry flavored, vanilla) Sour Cream with Carrageenan Sour Cream without Carrageenan Horizon (lowfat) 365 Whole Foods

Horizon (regular only)

Organic Valley

Nancy’s

Straus Family Creamery

Wallaby Organic Yogurt with Carrageenan Yogurt without Carrageenan Stonyfield (Oikos – caramel flavor only, Squeezers – all flavors)

Horizon (Tuberz™) Butterworks

Crystal Balls Farm

Hails Family Farm

Hawthorne Valley Farm

Horizon (all except Tuberz™)

Nancy’s

Seven Stars

Stonyfield (all except caramel Oikos and Squeezers)

Straus Family Creamery

Wallaby

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

Almond milk with Carrageenan Almond milk without Carrageenan Pacific Foods 365 Whole Foods Soymilk with Carrageenan Soymilk without Carrageenan 365 Whole Foods

Earth Balance

Nature’s Promise

Organic Valley

Silk

Soy Dream

Vermont Soy

Vitasoy

Wegman’s EdenSoy Westsoy Chocolate soymilk with Carrageenan Chocolate soymilk without Carrageenan 365 Whole Foods

Good Karma

Organic Valley

Silk

Soy Dream Tofu Shop Eden Foods has committed to removing carrageenan from its chocolate-flavored soymilk—check packaging for current ingredient list Frozen dessert (non-dairy) with Carrageenan Frozen dessert (non-dairy) without Carrageenan Good Karma

Rice Dream

So Delicious Julie’s

Nadamoo

Organic Nectars Soy creamer with Carrageenan Soy creamer without Carrageenan Silk

Wildwood Organic Valley Rice milk with Carrageenan Rice milk without Carrageenan 365 Whole Foods

Good Karma

Rice Dream (Unsweetened) B.R.A.T (all flavors)

Rice Dream (Original)

Deli Meat

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

Juice

Juice with Carrageenan Juice without Carrageenan Knudsen’s (Yumberry)

Lakewood (Coconut and Acai Amazon Berry) Columbia Gorge

Knudsen’s (all flavors except Yumberry)

Lakewood (all flavors except Coconut and Acai Amazon Berry)

Organic Valley

Uncle Matt’s

This is a preliminary review. More brands and information will be added in the future. Please either sign up for membership in The Cornucopia Institute, or our free electronic newsletter list, for further updates. If you come across organic products and/or brands utilizing carrageenan that are not yet listed, please forward specific information to us by emailing [email protected]