Conventional Heavy Cream without Carrageenan and Pastured Heavy Cream WITH

Ok, I am faced with a conundrum. I get that [COLOR=#333333]carrageenan isn't good for us, and I also don't want to consume conventional dairy. However, in my area at least, all of the pastured heavy cream (almost my only form of dairy) ALL has [/COLOR][COLOR=#333333]carrageenan. The only heavy cream I can find that doesn't have anything else in it is a non-pastured heavy cream sold at Whole Foods. I assume it is conventional. Their pastured cream does have it.

So which is worse for me? I only have a couple of tablespoons a day in my coffee, but I am unsure just how bad [/COLOR][COLOR=#333333]carrageenan is for us. Thoughts? Trader Joe's has half and half that doesn't have it, but I don't like to use that as I must use sugar if I don't use full cream. Bad, I know but there it is, heavy cream is a better choice for me.[/COLOR]

How irritated are your guts? If you have leaky gut and are healing that up then the carrageenan may worse of the two choices.

[QUOTE=Neckhammer;1075618]How irritated are your guts? If you have leaky gut and are healing that up then the carrageenan may worse of the two choices.[/QUOTE]

My gut can be very picky - it's better than it used to be but it still acts up from time to time...that being said I've been using the pastured cream with this additive without realizing it. Glad I finally noticed it, but I do wonder WHY they think they must add it!

Does Whole Foods not have more than one kind of heavy cream? I don't think getting non-pastured milk is really so terrible. My local location has a number of milks and creams available. Some are from local farms and don't have carageenan or anything like that. They even have a grass-fed option.

The grass-fed option (which is what I've been using) includes the [COLOR=#333333]carrageenan. There are other brands but they all appear to contain it, outside of the one non-grass-fed version. Perhaps our location carries different brands than yours. I guess it will be the one without the additive...[/COLOR]

Use butter and a blender :)

[QUOTE=sakura_girl;1076007]Use butter and a blender :)[/QUOTE]

:)

I've tried this but don't really care for it. I prefer just straight heavy cream instead. And...my co-workers would really start wondering if they heard a blender in my office...good idea though!

[QUOTE=Catrin;1076888]:)

I've tried this but don't really care for it. I prefer just straight heavy cream instead. And...my co-workers would really start wondering if they heard a blender in my office...good idea though![/QUOTE]

Haha I know what you mean. It really isn't the same, although quite delicious in itself. But I avoid carageenan, so I'd personally just skip the grass-fed one.