Hood?

[trouble]

What are your thoughts on Hood CarbCount Down Fat free? Does anyone use it if so in what types of foods or just drink it or add it to coffee/tea? What phase did you start to use it?

[Elizellen]

I did a google for the ingredients and found this

Ingredients: (Homogenized) Water, fat-free milk, cream, calcium caseinate, whey protein concentrate, buttermilk, tricalcium phosphate, salt, disodium phosphate, mono- and diglycerides, carrageenan, locust bean gum, natural flavor, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, vitamin [D.sub.3].

As the only dairy products we are supposed to eat on induction are cream and aged cheeses I would say - not an induction-legal option, but probably fine for OWL once you reach the dairy rung.
That is, if you really want to eat all those additives and your body can handle them.
I would prefer to use plain old milk without all those extra 'interesting' ingredients or for induction thin down some 'legal' cream with water instead.

[Kent]

I am with Elizellen on this one -- definitely the dairy rung. I really haven't been tempted by milk products too much, and use heavy cream (cut with water) in all recipes that required milk. The one exception is if I ever (rarely) have low carb cereal. The flavor just isn't right, and Hood's was good the one time I had it. I had the Carb down one not the Fat Free one though -- not sure if there is a difference.

[ttdriver]

NO FAT FREE ANYTHING FOR THIS GIRL!


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