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non-dairy creamer
What is this stuff? Is non-dairy creamer : cream like shortening : butter? Essentially I am asking: How gross should I feel if I put a little in my coffee at work because I have no true dairy products to use?
Re: non-dairy creamer
so i looked it up just because i had to know. i found an article on chow.com where they interviewed Dennis R. Heldman, PhD, a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri and the principal of Heldman Associates, a consulting company that specializes in food processes. So these are the ingredients:
Partially Hydrogenated Soybean/Cottonseed Oil; Palm Oil: Heldman says that these oils are used in place of milk fat. They deliver the creamy texture and some of the rich, fatty flavor of cream.
Sugar; Corn Syrup; Sodium Stearyl Lactylate*: ?Any sweetness that you pick up in dairy products is from the lactose,? explains Heldman; these ingredients are used to mimic this naturally occurring flavor.
Sodium Caseinate: This is a milk protein, to give ?flavor and texture,? says Heldman.
Mono- and Diglycerides: Additional fats to help give the product texture.
Dipotassium Phosphate: ?I?m making an assumption that this is an ingredient used in lieu of a natural salt that would be in cream,? says Heldman. ?I don?t believe there is any preservative aspect.?
Carrageenan*: Often referred to on ingredients lists as a ?stabilizer,? Heldman explains that this is an emulsifier that prevents the creamer from separating.
Natural and Artificial Flavors: Heldman says these final ingredients ?fine-tune the flavor profile to make it palatable.?
...also, random fact. they proved on mythbusters that dry non-dairy creamer is wicked flammable. makes you feel better, huh?
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Hmm. No good news here. That is a really long ingredient list. I was really hoping the butter:shortening comparison would work because I have already rationalized that one for myself.
It might be time to start buying some little cartons of milk or weaning myself to just sugar. I only put like a tiny drop of it in anyway but my mouth feels kind of weird and slimy after drinking coffee with it in there so I was starting to get creeped out.
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I must live under a rock. I have never heard of such a thing. Unless you mean the powdered stuff? Which I wouldn't personally ever use because it makes me think of powdered milk and that just seems devoid of any nutrition whatsoever!
I would just bring your own creamer or get a small carton of vanilla soy milk to store in the fridge and use that.