Dairy Free Shopping Guide
Dairy is a collective terms describing anything extracted from animal milk (often cows). An allergy to cow-milk products is more common than an allergy to extractions from the milk of buffalo, sheep or goats because of how common cow-milk products are. As a result, milk products from buffalo, sheep and goat can provide an alternative to cow-milk foods.
Below is a list of dairy-related ingredients you will likely want to avoid if you have a (cow-milk) dairy allergy.
The obvious ingredients include:
- butter
- cheese
- cream (all kinds - ice, sour, etc.)
- curd
- milk
- milk powders
- yogurt
The not-so-obvious ingredients include: (more information)
- casein/caseinate (sodium, ammonium, calcium, magnesium, hydrolyzed, or potassium caseinate)
- delactosed whey
- demineralized whey
- galactose
- glucose
- lactalbumin
- lactase
- lactic acid
- lactoglobulin
- lactose
- whey
- whey powder
- whey protein
