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The Food Museum weblog had a shocking discovery over the Thanksgiving Holiday. She was looking for whipping cream and could not find one in the grocery store that wasn’t loaded with extra ingredients.

• food museum blog: Eat Well and Be Well–Happy Thanksgiving!

The last few times I purchased cream, I never even thought about looking at the ingredients. Now, I’ll be checking them. If I’m going to spend the calories and fat on whipping cream, I want to have the real stuff, not some fake cream filled with emulsifiers and seaweed.

“Foodie held a small carton of something labeled whipping cream but when she scanned the list of ingredients “cream” was not high among them. The “food gum,” carrageenan, a seaweedish item once only from Ireland but evidently now more likely to come from the Philippines or Chile, was on the list–along with gelatin and diclycerides and so on. Stabilizers and emulsifiers rule in mass produced cream and other milk products.”

Part of eating healthy is knowing what is worth the calories. Once I’ve decided that “real” whipped cream is worth it for this dessert or occasion, I don’t want to have a huge list of alternate ingredients in my cream. I want the real thing.