A few hours ago I accidentally stumbled across this thickener again and am just getting over the very unpleasant and painful side effects. Funnily enough when I checked my last blog entry on this substance it was almost a year ago (give a few days) that I first discovered I had an allergy to carrageenan – the only allergy that I have to anything. Hubby bought some ‘strawberry smash’ yoghurt pottles last week when our little niece was staying with us.
It’s a very nice tasting product with jelly on top of quite thick yoghurt. It came in a pack of six and as niece only was allowed one of them we had leftovers – one of which I sampled today. After a few hours the allergic effects made themselves felt and sure enough when I checked the container there it was amongst the three thickeners that are in it – 1442, 407 and 415. I guess it goes to show the dangers of letting hubby shop without me!