How to Read a Label for a Milk-Free Diet

Are you on a milk-free diet? Then you should avoid these ingredients:

artificial butter flavor
butter, butter fat, butter oil
casein
buttermilk
caseinates (ammonium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium)
cheese
cream
cottage cheese
curds
custard
Half and Half®
hydrolysates (caesin, milk protein, protein, whey, whey protein)
lactalbumin, lactalbumin phosphate
lactoglobulin
milk (derivative, powder, protein, solids, malted, condensed, evaporated, dry, whole, low-fat, non-fat, skimmed, goat's milk)
nougat
pudding
rennet caesin
sour cream, sour cream solids, sour milk solids
whey (all forms including sweet, delacatosed, protein concentrate)
yogurt

Label ingredients that may indicate the presence of milk protein:

flavorings including:
- caramel
- bavarian cream
- coconut cream
- brown sugar
- butter
- natural
chocolate
high protein flour margarine Simplessee®

Pillsbury Products:

Lovin' Lite Cake Mixes:
- Angel Food
- White
- Yellow
Ready-To-Spread Supreme Frostings:
- Cream Cheese
- French Vanilla
- Lemon
PLUS Cake Mixes:
- Banana
- Butter Yellow
- Lemon
- French Vanilla
- Yellow
Quickbread Mixes:
- Apple Cinnamon
- Banana
Miscellaneous:
- Hot Roll Mix
- Gingerbread Mix
- Pie Crust Mix
  - Bread Machine Breads:
    - Crusty White
- Biscuits (Refrigerated):
  - Ballard Oven-Ready
  - Big Country Buttermilk
  - Hungry Jack Fluffy Buttermilk
  - Tender Layer Buttermilk
  - Ballard Buttermilk
  - Hungry Jack Flaky Buttermilk
  - Hungry Jack Honey Flaky
- Cookies:
  - Peanut Butter
  - Sugar
- Muffins:
  - Pumpkin
Note: To recieve an up-to-date list (this items in the Pillsbury section are from February 1994), send requests to Consumer Response, The Pillsbury Company, Box 550, Minneapolis, MN 55440-0550.

Keep this list in mind the next time you go food shopping. Many foods on this list (cheese, butter, etc.) have soy counterparts that do not contain milk and still taste good.

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