What’s in Your 10% Half & Half?

Jules

Jules

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I only buy this when I need it for guests. Today I was picking up the WM Equate brand and another lady was picking up the higher priced brand. I asked her what the difference was and she didn’t know, so I decided to read the label and was shocked.

This may no be the exact label, because WM is all across the country.

Ingredients: Milk, Cream, Carrageenan, Disodium phosphate, Mono et diglycerides, Sodium citrate. At Walmart Canada,

The name brand had milk, cream and sodium citrate (a preservative).

Colour me shocked.
 

Interesting! I never thought to read the ingredients of half&half. The Wegman's brand of Half & Half that I use has:

"Milk, Cream, Gellan Gum, Disodium Phosphate, Sodium Citrate (mineral salts added to prevent cream separation in hot liquids)"
 

Devi said:
If I have it correctly, Half & Half is supposed to be half milk and half cream. 10% ... haven't a clue.
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Yes, that's it. Half and Half is simply a mixture of equal parts whole milk and cream. I don't know what "10%" Half & Half is, either. The organic Half & Half I buy only contains Organic Grade A Milk and Organic Cream with nothing else added.
 
Jules said:
I only buy this when I need it for guests. Today I was picking up the WM Equate brand and another lady was picking up the higher priced brand. I asked her what the difference was and she didn’t know, so I decided to read the label and was shocked.

This may no be the exact label, because WM is all across the country.

Ingredients: Milk, Cream, Carrageenan, Disodium phosphate, Mono et diglycerides, Sodium citrate. At Walmart Canada,

The name brand had milk, cream and sodium citrate (a preservative).

Colour me shocked.
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@Jules - Ditch that sh!t! JC_doubledown
 
I googled it and it looks to me like 10% half and half would be the least amount of fat that could still be called half and half:

Half-and-half​

Much like heavy cream, half-and-half is a dairy product.​
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It’s made by combining equal parts cream and whole milk, resulting in a product that’s thinner and lower in fat than heavy cream. The FDA requires half-and-half to contain between 10.5% to 18% milkfat.​
 
Jules said:
I didn’t buy it. The only time I need it is for guests and I wouldn’t do that to them.

I wonder if anyone else stops to read the ingredient in dairy products. There are other flavoured cream products for adding to coffee. Good grief, what’s in the them.
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Good Grief is right! I read labels because I want to avoid the crap they add to almost everything. 🤨
 
Jules said:
Me too. I never thought of looking at a basic dairy product.
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Yeah, right? That's why we need to read everything. It even pays to periodically check the labels on products that we usually buy because they change the ingredients. :rolleyes:
 

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