Fancy a Serve of Polyoxethylene Sorbitan Monostearate With Your Coconut Milk?
Following on from yesterdays post on Coconut Milk & Coconut Cream, I’ve found out a few things about those added ingredients. Seemingly innocuous names such as E435 hide chemicals I quite simply would rather not consume. I’ll take the coconut milk with the huge layer of cream on top, thanks.
Stabilizer E466 (or just 466): Also known as Carboxymethyl Cellulose
This is used as a thicking agent, a filler, anti clumping agent and an emulsifier. As well as its use in food, Carboxymethyl Cellulose is also used in ceramics, detergents & textiles. It is derived from cellulose (as found in wood & plant structures) which is chemically modified. It isn't possible to find out the source directly, but it could come from genetically engineered cotton plants.
Vegetable gum (412) or Emulsifier, E412: More commonly known as Guar gum
Guar Gum is often added as a thickener to avoid the contents of the tin separating. Guar Gum is made from the seed of the Cyamopsis tetragonoloba shrub, which is a legume The seeds are dehusked, milled & screened to produce an off white powder. I think I’d rather deal with the natural separation of the coconut milk.
Emulsifier E435: Also known as Polyoxethylene sorbitan monostearate, Polysorbate 60, or Tween 60
This chemical compound is created from ethylene oxide (a synthetic compound), sorbitol and palmitic acid. One of the main issues appears to be that the origin of these components is not easy to find out, but may be include “vegetable” oils. I’ve not been able to find any relevant studies, but there are lots of mentions of cancer when discussing this additive.
Thickener E415, also known as Xanthin gum
This thickener is created from fermenting corn sugar with a bacterium. It may also use wheat, dairy or soy. As with all of these additives it is very hard to determine exactly how the chemical was derived.
Do you know more about these additives? Are you happy to consume a small amount of these additives to get coconut milk into your diet? Let me know in the comments below.
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There is a brand of coconut milk and cream called Aroy D,
it is UHT treated and contains no emulsifers etc. Just coconut 🙂
I’ll have to look out for that brand Megan. What I don’t understand is, if it’s possible to produce it without all the chemicals – why can’t they all make it that way?! Surely everyone would rather have the pure version and not the chemicals?!
I’m afraid also Aroy D coconut milk contain Polyoxethylene Sorbitan Monostearate (E435) as it can be read in the label added for the European exportation: coconut extract 60%, water, emulsifier E435. I found curious that in the original label, produced in Vietnam, the ingredients declared are only coconut extract and water, without any mention of the emulsifier.
Interesting article, thanks. Personally, I don’t mind the chemicals- after all, everything is made of chemicals of some sort, natural or man made.
I think there’s a big difference between synthetic chemicals that aren’t naturally contained in food – and the natural foods themselves. But whatever makes you happy Joe!
Xanthum gum is nasty.Its made from the black slimy mold that grows on broccoli. This is then fed on genetically modified high fructose corn syrup. This produces a thickened substance which is then used as a thickener in lots of products. It’s often used in place of gluten in gluten free products and in cakes biscuits breads baked goods etc. Give me whole food any day.If you can trust the label,ayam coconut milks are the only ones that are ok to consume. They contain no additives.
Ingredients:
Almondmilk (Water, Almonds), Coconut Cream. Contains Less Than 2% of the Following: Vitamin/Mineral Blend (Calcium Carbonate, Vitamin A, Vitamin E, Vitamin D2, Vitamin B12, Vitamin B2, Zinc), Sunflower Lecithin, Sea Salt, Natural Flavors, Potassium Citrate, Locust Bean Gum, Gellan Gum, Monk Fruit Extract.
Allergen Statement: Contains Almonds.
Made from non-genetically engineered almonds
These are the ingredients in Califia Coconut Almond milk, could anyone tell me if any of these are all that bad for you?
Brought a can of ‘KATI’ coconut cream at Whole foods. From Thailand. French language label originally. English sticker claimed; coconut extract 70% , water. Peeled the sticker to find the above plus E435. …. Mad!
E435 gives me asthma and a red face
This is great, I’ve been looking up E435 & E466 as it’s in the Grace coconut milk tins but not in the 1lt cartons. I switched as Amazon stopped selling the big ones in bulk but I didn’t check the ingredients as it’s the same make. My mistake but how sneaky. I do wonder if they’ve not put it on their ingredients list on the cartons though. I’ll leave a comment to make people aware but I switched brands/makes to Tropical sun.
Warning! I have allergies: to dairy, wheat, sugar, white salt, and shop-bought cheeses, due to the chemicals and poisons added to our foods, that have killed off my gut bacteria, which then triggers the auto-immune, or allergy off.
Now, I have always made my own homemade cream cheese which is all I eat, by taking a cooking break, for the next two to four days to replenish my gut flora.
Now that we are approaching Christmas, all the prices go up, and I’ve noticed that they have more than doubled the price of fresh dairy cream which I have always used, so this time I thought I would give coconut cream a try, which I have been using all along in my cooking recipes.
On using it, I have discovered the bacteria take off initially, and it makes lovely cream cheese, almost as good as using fresh cream, but, and I mean a “BIG BUT,” so now, hear me out…
With fresh dairy cream the bacteria continue to ferment away until it comes out the back end, bubbles, as it works its way through my digestive tract, and or colon, however, this time on using coconut cream as a substitute, IT DID NOT DO THIS AT ALL, not one bubble at all, and stopped fermenting in my colon, as if it was dead – Now what does that tell you? Chemicals in this product destroy our gut bacteria? And what about our other gut bacteria?
Here are the ingredients which have been added to this canned product we have in South Africa, Emulsifiers E471 and E435, Stabilizers, E466 and E415 and bleaching agent E223.
From now on, I will stick with fresh dairy cream only, even pasteurized dairy cream in the carton is good.
Our gut bacteria is what keeps us alive. With the Depopulation agenda they are targeting us through our foods, as a slow kill method, so please take heed and be warned.
By the way, the allergens in milk are drained out with the whey, that’s why I with my dairy allergy, I can still enjoy this form of dairy, however, there is some allergen that seems to be added to cheddar cheeses lately, and I assume the other similar cheeses, too, as both I, in South Africa, and my cousin in the UK, both happened to develop an allergy to this cheese at the same time.
Thanks for the article. Was just just curious of the ingredient emulsifier 435 on the coconut milk can and landed at this site.
Crazy all the stuff’s they add to the packed foods… Have started paying more attention to food ingredients very recently. Was surprised/shocked to find the contents of a plain vanilla icecream.
Also the brand TCC coconut milk seems to list only coconut milk and water as the ingredients. Would you know by any chance if that could be true?