So What Should You Do About Carrageenan?

Naturally you will need to avoid all the foods that contain carrageenan.

The first thing you will have to do is start reading food labels. This could be time consuming at first, but when you determine which food brands do not contain this ingredient, your grocery shopping will be much easier and faster.

This is a list of the foods that could contain carrageenan:

• Non-dairy milk (Coconut, Almond, Soy, Oat, Rice and Hemp milk),
• Non-dairy yogurt, Cheese alternatives,
• Vegan and Vegetarian desserts (puddings, ice creams, chocolate milk),
• Frozen dinners (pizza) and
• Regular dairy products (mostly low fat options) like cottage cheese, yogurt, kefir, sour cream,
• Deli meats,
• Canned soup and broths,
• Beer,
• Dips,
• Juices.

From this list we can conclude that even the products which are targeted for people who want to eat healthy (organic foods)  are actually problematic.

For most of these products, you can find a brand that does not add carrageenan, but the healthiest solution is to prepare foods by yourself, which means that you will need to prepare soups, meals, and desserts from scratch. This option is great because that way you will avoid carrageenan as well as many other unhealthy ingredients.

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Simple Recipes To Get You Started

Salad dressing - You need to combine extra virgin olive oil and your favorite vinegar or lemon juice plus salt and black pepper. That’s the basic form of the dressing, then you can add mustard and honey or sour cream and mayonnaise. Fresh or dried herbs can just add a flavor, and you can’t go wrong.

Quick soup - One of my personal favorites is broccoli soup. All you need to do is boil broccoli flowers in very little water. Then pour the broccoli and water in the blender, add spices and sour cream.

Pasta sauce - When you have fresh ripe tomatoes, you just need to take skin off the tomato and blend it together with some feta cheese.

Almond Milk - Basically you need to leave almonds covered with water over night, and then blend everything together in the morning.

Deli meats can be substituted with cold cuts (you just need to plan and prepare more meat the day before, so you can make sandwiches or salads the next day)

Juices - The only type of juices that you should drink are freshly squeezed juice or smoothies prepared in the blender.

Carrageenan can also be found  in many non-food products like toothpaste, cosmetics, air fresheners, paints, shoe polish and even your pet is not safe since it can be found in pet food too.

Second, you can speak up. When manufacturers get multiple complaints about carrageenan they will take action; they are completely dependent on their customers and buyers. You can also inform all the people around you about this potentially very dangerous food ingredient.