Cream With No Cholesterol! (Alpro Soya Alternative to Single Cream)

Member Name: Machair1

Product:	Alpro Soya Alternative to Single Cream
Date:	27/01/09 (140 review reads)
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Advantages: Low in fat and delicious.

Disadvantages: None

If you are lactose intolerant, watching your cholesterol, trying to eat more healthily, or like me plodding onto towards the menopause then have a look at this Alpro Soya Cream. You don't even need a reason just have a change!

I saw this in Tesco recently and it is widely available now in most supermarkets for a very good price of 59p and you will find it in the chiller cabinet.

Now in my time I have tried many cream substitutes and many of them are lovely, but all of them are long life and lack that freshness you get when you purchase dairy cream. This, however, is perfect as it is ready and waiting for you-fresh as a daisy. The beauty of it is there is no cholesterol so it is good for your heart.

Ingredients

Water, Sunflower oil (8.4%), Hulled soya beans (3.8%), Modified tapioca starch, Fructose-glucose syrup, Emulsifiers: sucrose esters of fatty acid and soya lecithin, Locust bean gum, Flavouring, Sea salt, Antioxidant: Tocopherol-rich-extract, Thickener: carageenan

So What Does It Taste Like?

Well I have to tell you that my favourite desert is "key lime pie", a simple recipe which you can make which is delicious and refreshing, but really calls for a pouring cream to finish it off nicely. Now as my recipe for this contains condensed milk I think it would be dairy overload to pour on more cream-probably a heart attack on a plate, so I bought a pot of this. It was absolutely delicious and you couldn't tell it wasn't cream. It is beautifully smooth, white, and pours just like single cream, and it tastes identical in every way to the real thing!
It is also possible to cook with it making it perfect to put into sauces and deserts. It would also be useful if you were going to make a quiche or a tart. To its credit it also lasted a good long time in the fridge after opening.
I also used it in coffee and it is perfect. If you have a vegan in the family then this is going to be a real bonus as at last in our house we can all enjoy a desert with the same topping! If you make an apple crumble with soya margarine you can top it with this cream and it is delicious.
For anyone who is watching their cholesterol this is perfect.

What is Soya And Where Does It Come From?

Soya is grown in various parts of the world, although Alpro Soya sources the beans mostly in Brazil, Canada and China. They are not made into soya products there though but are shipped to factories in Europe where they are made into cream, yogurts and milk. They are all non GM which is good and the company strives to work in an ethical way.

Healthy Benefits

Lots of things have been claimed about soya in recent years which may or may not be true, and I personally feel swamped by all this advice, and feel it is just better to eat everything in moderation. Soya is however, low in bad fats, and rich in the good fats such as omega 3 and 6, and recent studies show that just 25g of soya per day can actually reduce levels of bad cholesterol.
There is some evidence to suggest that it helps with the menopause symptoms as it contains phytoestrogens which are beneficial to women in particular -maybe that is why the adverts usually show women in them, so when I get to that stage I will probably be singing its praises!

For now though I think I'll just enjoy it. A perfect alternative to dairy and a lot less fat!

Summary: A great fresh alternative to real dairy cream.