Always read ingredient lists carefully. Carrageenan may be present in the final product but not listed on the ingredients label when it is used as a “processing aid,” for example in cream. We recommend contacting the company directly if you would like to confirm whether carrageenan is in the final product. Read more on processing aids here, and view USDA safe and suitable ingredients here.
Note: The law does not require ingredients to be listed on alcoholic beverages, and carrageenan is commonly used to clarify beer.
If you suffered from gastrointestinal symptoms that improved or disappeared after cutting carrageenan from your diet, fill out a questionnaire to help us and medical researchers better understand the effects of carrageenan on public health.
If you find organic products containing carrageenan that are not yet listed, please email [email protected]. If possible include pictures of the front and ingredients panels with your email. A partial list of conventional products containing carrageenan follows the tables of organic products.
You can contact companies in the left column using the links provided.
Please note that all brands listed with an asterisk (*) supply products both with and without carrageenan.
Organic Dairy
| Buttermilk with Carrageenan | Buttermilk without Carrageenan |
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| (Organic buttermilk producers that used to add carrageenan have reformulated their products to be carrageenan-free) |
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| Chocolate Milk With Carrageenan | Chocolate Milk without Carrageenan |
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| Cottage Cheese with Carrageenan | Cottage Cheese without Carrageenan |
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| Cream with Carrageenan | Cream without Carrageenan |
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| Eggnog with Carrageenan | Eggnog without Carrageenan |
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| Ice Cream with Carrageenan | Ice Cream without Carrageenan |
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| Kefir with Carrageenan | Kefir without Carrageenan |
| No organic kefir found with carrageenan – carrageenan is sometimes used in conventional kefir |
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| Sour Cream with Carrageenan | Sour Cream without Carrageenan |
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| Yogurt with Carrageenan | Yogurt without Carrageenan |
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Organic Dairy Alternative
| Almond Beverage with Carrageenan | Almond Beverage without Carrageenan |
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| Cheese Alternative with Carrageenan | Cheese Alternative without Carrageenan |
| No organic cheese alternatives found with carrageenan – carrageenan is often used in conventional cheese alternatives |
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| Chocolate Soy Beverage with Carrageenan | Chocolate Soy Beverage without Carrageenan |
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| Coconut Beverage with Carrageenan | Coconut Beverage without Carrageenan |
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| Coconut Water with Carrageenan | Coconut Water without Carrageenan |
| (Organic coconut water producers that used to add carrageenan have reformulated their products to be carrageenan-free) |
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| Coffee Creamer with Carrageenan | Coffee Creamer without Carrageenan |
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| Frozen Dessert (non-dairy) with Carrageenan | Frozen Dessert (non-dairy) without Carrageenan |
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| Hemp Beverage with Carrageenan | Hemp Beverage without Carrageenan |
| No organic hemp beverages found with carrageenan. |
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| Oat Beverage with Carrageenan | Oat Beveragewithout Carrageenan |
| No organic oat beverages found with carrageenan. |
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| Rice Beverage with Carrageenan | Rice Beverage without Carrageenan |
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| Soy Beverage with Carrageenan | Soy Beverage without Carrageenan |
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| “Yogurt” (Non-Dairy) with Carrageenan | “Yogurt” (Non-Dairy) without Carrageenan |
| (Organic non-dairy “yogurt” producers that used to add carrageenan have reformulated their products to be carrageenan-free) |
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Organic Nutritional Drinks & Supplements
| Nutritional Drinks and Supplements with Carrageenan | Nutritional Drinks and Supplements without Carrageenan |
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Vegetarian softgels are often made with carrageenan. |
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Organic Deli Meat
| Deli Meat with Carrageenan | Deli Meat without Carrageenan |
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Organic Dips
| Dips with Carrageenan | Dips without Carrageenan |
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| (Organic dip producers that used to add carrageenan have reformulated their products to be carrageenan-free) |
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Organic Juice
| Juice with Carrageenan | Juice without Carrageenan |
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| (Organic juice producers that used to add carrageenan have reformulated their products to be carrageenan-free) |
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Organic Prepared Foods
| Desserts/Snacks with Carrageenan | Desserts/Snacks without Carrageenan |
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| Pizza with Carrageenan | Pizza without Carrageenan |
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| Prepared Foods with Carrageenan | Prepared Foods without Carrageenan |
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AVOID: Conventional/“Natural” Foods with Carrageenan
Below is a partial list of conventional products containing carrageenan. This list is not comprehensive, but provides examples of categories of foods where you may not expect to find carrageenan, like nutrition bars (Balance Bars), chocolate bars (Enjoy Life), and chicken strips (Butterball and Hormel).
Always check ingredients lists carefully when purchasing foods – some of the brands listed below carry products with and without carrageenan (for example, Kraft Philadelphia fat free cream cheese contains carrageenan, whereas Kraft Philadelphia regular cream cheese is carrageenan-free).
Chocolate/Candy Bars
- Enjoy Life ChocoBoom™ Ricemilk and Ricemilk Crunch
- PayDay Bar
Chocolate Milk/Powder
- Borden (also eggnog and other flavors)
- Carnation Breakfast Essentials
- Garelick TruMoo™
- Hood Simply Smart
- Cold Stone Creamery
- Nestle Nesquik
- Ovaltine
- Promised Land (also eggnog and other flavors)
- Stop ‘n Shop
Coffee Beverages
- Caribou (iced coffee in the can)
- Coconut Cafe
- International Delight
- Starbucks drinks with soy beverage
Coffee Creamer and Half and Half
- Dairygold
- Fresh Market half & half
- Friendly Farms
- Great Value (Walmart) half & half – please read the label, some may be on the market without carrageenan
- Hood Fat Free coffee creamer
- International Delight coffee creamer
- King Island Coconut Milk coffee creamer
- McDonald’s coffee creamer
- Meadowgold
- Nestle Coffeemate, liquid (Only “Natural Bliss” full fat flavors are carrageenan-free)
- So Nice non-dairy coffee creamer
Dairy (cottage cheese, sour cream, ricotta cheese, yogurt, etc.)
- Activia (yogurt)
- Big Y Foods (part skim ricotta cheese)
- Brown Cow (some yogurts)
- Byblos yogurt
- Byrne Dairy (ultra-pasteurized half & half)
- Cabot (whipped cream, nonfat yogurt, cottage cheese)
- Carnation (evaporated milk and Breakfast Essentials)
- Dannon (Oikos yogurt)
- Darigold
- Dean’s (cottage cheese)
- Dragone (ricotta cheese)
- FarmFriend by Trickling Springs Creamery (chocolate milk)
- Fit & Active (yogurt)
- Friendship (non-fat cottage cheese)
- Frijj milkshakes
- Garelick Farms (cream, eggnog, whipped topping)
- Great Value (Walmart)
- Happy Farms (Aldi Foods)
- Kemps (sour cream and cottage cheese)
- Kraft (cottage cheeses and Philadelphia fat free cream cheese)
- Kroger (CARBmaster nonfat milk, Deluxe ice cream)
- LACTAID (Calcium enriched milk, chocolate milk, eggnog)
- Land O’ Lakes (aerosol whipped cream, sour cream and cottage cheese)
- Lucerne (heavy whipping cream)
- Mid-America Farms
- Nancy’s “All Natural” (some flavors of lowfat yogurt)
- Nestle (Carnation evaporated milk)
- Oakhurst (heavy cream)
- Oberweis (chocolate milk)
- Old Home Foods (sour cream, fat-free cottage cheese)
- Pathmark (skim supreme)
- President’s Choice (ice cream)
- Promised Land (whipping cream)
- Reddi-Wip
- Roundy’s (heavy whipping cream, cottage cheese, evaporated milk, more)
- Shamrock Farms (cottage cheese and skim plus)
- Sinton’s (whipping cream)
- Starbucks (yogurt, whipped cream)
- Trader Joe’s
- coffee creamer
- cottage cheese
- many frozen dairy desserts
- shelf-stable whipping cream
- sour cream
- Twin Brook Creamery (chocolate milk and eggnog)
- Westby (sour cream, yogurt, etc.)
- Yogurtland
Dairy Alternatives
Also see organic dairy alternatives in table at top of page for alternative beverages
- 8th Continent soy beverage
- Almond Dream
- almond beverage: original, unsweetened, vanilla, and unsweetened vanilla
- frozen dessert
- Alpina Avena oatmeal smoothie
- Archer Farms soy beverage – Target
- Bolthouse Farms soynog
- Blue Monkey coconut beverage
- Chai Nog (Oregon Chai) soynog
- Coconut Dream coconut beverages
- Earth’s Own Almond Fresh almond beverage
- Engine 2 Plant-Strong almond beverage
- Flax USA flax beverage
- Friendly Farms almond beverage (Aldi)
- Great Value almond beverage (Walmart)
- Greenway unsweetened almond beverage
- Nature’s Place almond beverage (unsweetened original and unsweetened vanilla)
- Nature’s Promise almond beverage
- Pacific Foods
- hazelnut beverage
- hemp beverage: unsweetened original, unsweetened vanilla and chocolate
- rice beverage
- soy beverage: all natural Select original and vanilla, all natural ultra original and vanilla
- Rice Dream
- frozen desserts
- horchata
- lattes
- rice nog
- Ryza rice beverage
- Sainsbury’s Vegan Cheese
- Simple Truth Coconut beverage – Kroger
- Simpli Oat Shakes (chocolate and coffee flavors only)
- Simply Balanced almond beverage (Target)
- So Delicious (almond beverage plus protein)
- So Nice soy beverage (all flavors except natural)
- Sol (Sunrich Naturals) sunflower beverage
- Soy Dream
- frozen dessert
- soy beverage: enriched vanilla and enriched original
- Soy Slender (Westsoy) soy beverage and chocolate soy beverage
- Starbucks (soy beverage and coconut beverage may contain carrageenan, varies by store)
- Sunflower Dream sunflower beverage
- Sunsational sunflower beverage
- Trader Joe’s
- coconut beverage
- Soy Creamy frozen dessert
- many other frozen desserts
- Tofutti (all products)
- Zico coconut beverage (chocolate flavored)
Dairy-Free Cheese, Dips and Spreads
- Butte Island Food
- Dean’s
- Go Veggie Foods
- Lisanatti Foods Rice Cheeze Snack Sticks
- Marzetti’s Otria Greek Yogurt Veggie Dips (all flavors)
- Marzetti’s Veggie Dips (all flavors)
- Shullsburg Creamery
- Soy Kaas
- Trader Joe’s
Desserts
- Dandies Vegan Marshmallows
- Fresh & Easy Pudding
- General Mills Fruit Gushers
- Kozy Shack
- Kraft Minute Tapioca
- Little Debbie oatmeal snack cakes
- Open Nature fruit and vegetable juice bars (Safeway)
- Trader Joe’s dark chocolate covered caramels
- Yasso Frozen Greek Yogurt
- Yoplait Frozen Greek Yogurt
Dressings (Salad)
- Bolthouse Farms Yogurt
Ice Cream & Frozen Desserts
- 365 (Whole Foods) Frozen Fruit Bars
- Ben and Jerry’s
- Blue Bell Creameries
- Blue Bunny
- Breyer’s
- Chapman’s
- Ciao Bella Gelato
- Coldstone Creamery
- Dairy Queen
- Double Rainbow Sorbet
- Edy’s
- Friendly’s
- Hood
- Kemp’s
- Lopez Island Creamery
- Perry’s
- Publix
- Purple Door Ice Cream
- Sassy Cow Creamery
- Schwan’s
- Snickers Ice Cream Bars
- Turkey Hill (Premium flavors only)
Infant Formula
Currently all ready-to-drink (liquid) infant formula, except Gerber Good Start, contains carrageenan. Avoid carrageenan in infant formula by buying organic powdered formula.
Meat
- Aidells (lunchmeat)
- Aldi (Fit & Active turkey breast and ham, Lunch Mate smoked ham)
- Butterball (chicken breast strips)
- Columbus Naturals (oven roasted turkey)
- Hormel (Natural Choice deli meats)
- Kroger (raw chicken)
- Oscar Meyer (Deli-Fresh)
- Vita (Herring in Real Sour Cream)
Nutrition Bars
- Balance Bars
Nutritional Drinks, Supplements and Teas
Please note that gel caps often contain carrageenan
- Atkins ready to drink shake
- Blue Bonnet Liquid Calcium Magnesium Citrate Plus Vitamin D3 (listed as “sea vegetable extract”)
- Bolthouse Farms Protein PLUS and Perfectly Protein
- Carnation Breakfast Essentials
- Country Life gel caps
- dōTERRA gel caps
- Dr. Ohhira’s Probiotics
- EAS 100% Whey Protein Powder
- Ensure
- Herbalife Formula 1
- Nestle Boost
- Nordic Naturals gel caps
- Odwalla protein drinks
- Ovega-3 (in capsules)
- PediaSure
- Premier Protein Shake
- Pure Protein Shake
- Six Star Pro Nutrition Instant Protein Smoothie
- Slim Fast
- Solgar calcium-magnesium citrate liquid
- Udo’s veggie caps
- Yogi Green Tea Super Antioxidant
- Young Living Oils gel caps
- ZICO Coconut Water (chocolate)
Prepared Foods
- Birds Eye Voila! Chicken Florentine
- Buitoni Mushroom Agnolotti
- Butterball Frozen Fully Cooked Turkey
- Campbell’s (100% Natural Creamy Gouda Bisque, Chunky Chicken Noodle Soup)
- Dempster’s tortillas
- Field Roast (Roasts, Classic Meatloaf, Loaves, Deli Slices, Burgers)
- Gardenburger Malibu Burger
- Gerber Graduates kids’ meals (ravioli)
- Healthy Choice
- Marie Callender’s pot pies
- Rosetto Ravioli
- Sophie’s Kitchen (most of the seafood alternatives)
- Starbucks (egg bites)
- Stouffer’s (meat loaf and fried chicken frozen dinners)
- Trader Joe’s (chicken and cheese tamales)
- Udi’s (Millet Chia Bread, Omega Flax & Fiber Bread)
- Weight Watchers Smart Ones
- Yves Veggie Cuisine
- many grocery store rotisserie chickens (this is not a brand, but a note to check product ingredients)
last updated on 4/5/2019
