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“The declaration of ‘natural flavor’ in products represented as characterized by vanilla refers to a combination of flavors from real vanilla and non-vanilla natural sources, such as tree bark or lignin.” “’Natural flavor’ refers to ‘the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive…which contains the flavoring constituents’ from a natural source such as plant material and can refer to combinations of natural flavors,” notes the complaint. The list includes “natural flavors,” however. In addition, nowhere on the label does the company inform consumers that vanilla flavoring, rather than real vanilla, is used in Califia Farms almondmilk.Īccording to the Califia Farms class action lawsuit, the ingredient list is the only place where the lack of real vanilla is disclosed.

The products, including regular and unsweetened vanilla almondmilk, come with a picture of a vanilla flower. However, the plaintiff says that Califia Farms tricks consumers into thinking their products contain only real vanilla. Because of this popularity and scarcity of actual vanilla bean to meet the demand, vanilla flavoring is often imitated by food producers who use other flavorings mixed with vanilla to stretch the ingredient in their products. Real vanilla is made from a tropical orchid. Vanilla is one of the most popular flavors in the United States, alleges the complaint. In fact, says the plaintiff, the product contains vanilla flavoring that comes from tree bark or lignin. Lead plaintiff, New York resident Michelle Ann Cicciarella, alleges in her class action lawsuit that she and others were duped into thinking the nondairy beverage contained only real vanilla flavoring. Congratulations to everyone who filed a claim and got PAID!Ĭalifia Farms has been hit with a class action lawsuit claiming the company made deceptive claims about the vanilla in its almondmilk products. 26, 2020, Top Class Actions viewers started to receive checks in the mail from the Califia non-dairy class action settlement worth as much as $5. Ensure that you check the ingredients and use them sparingly!įor all the Beet Meters, check out the best vegan products.UPDATE: On Sept. Unfortunately, most of the better non-dairy creamers I tasted have added cane sugar (except the So Delicious organic creamer) and added oils (coconut, palm, or sunflower).

The main objective for these taste tests was to find a non-dairy creamer that would replace half and half, which I heat in my electric milk frother to give me that creamy coffee treats I so depended on every morning.

#Califia vanilla almond milk full

While this taste is totally subjective based on personal taste, and whether you prefer half and a half or full cream taste and consistency in your coffee, it will hopefully help guide you as you search for your favorite option. In this taste test, we sampled Califia Farms Almond Creamer, Silk Almond Creamer Vanilla, Natural Bliss Coconut Milk Creamer/Sweet Cream, So Delicious Organic Creamer, Coconut Milk, Natural Bliss Oat Milk Creamer, Vanilla Natural Flavor, Silk Oat Yeah Oat Milk Creamer, Silk Original Dairy-Free Original Soy Creamer, and Trader Joe's Coconut Creamer.

#Califia vanilla almond milk plus

There are many great choices to choose from, so we decided to taste-test the most popular non-dairy creamers, plus a few outliers that sounded interesting. So skip the regular Coffee-Mate and try the non-dairy natural Bliss sister brand, since it doesn't contain the caseinate that we could see.

#Califia vanilla almond milk free

Note that traditional Coffee-Mate (a Nestlé product) is lactose-free and on the company's website they say it is 'non-dairy' but some of their products are not completely free of animal products since they contain sodium caseinate, which is a protein derived from cow's milk.