Meal Replacement Shakes

[Nadine]

I posted this in the Forum Wiki for Carrageenan and didn't get any responses, so I am posting here and hoping I will get some feedback.

My 20 year old daughter was recently diagnosed with Crohn's. She was in the hospital for a couple of days due to severe dehydration and anemia. She is doing much better now and is on Remicade and prednisone (tapering). She is in college in CA (and I am in NJ...very difficult being so far away) and, although she has no trouble eating now, she is looking for a meal replacement drink for when she has no time between classes to have a regular meal. They gave her Boost in the hospital and she went home with a couple of extra ones. She asked me to get them for her but I was not happy with the ingredients (aside from the carrageenan it also has sucralose, which we avoid). Not easy to find a ready to drink meal replacement without carrageenan.

I found this one and was hoping to get some feedback as to whether all of the ingredients are okay (all the other ready to drink ones by this brand have carrageenan).

http://orgain.com/products/organic-v...tional-shakes/

I also found an article when Googling "carrageenan and ibd" that listed "Intestinal Health Antagnonists" to avoid. This list included "Calcium supplements containing calcium phosphate or calcium triphosphate". The ingredients for the shake I linked above include "Tricalcium phosphate". Does anyone know if this is the same thing? Here is the link to that article.

http://drhoffman.com/article/address...wel-disease-2/

Thanks so much for any and all help in trying to decipher these ingredient labels and figure out what she can eat!

Nadine

 

[rollinstone]

Hi nadine, what a great mother you are doing all this research for your daughter, I heard orgain has a new vegan shake without carrageenanm otherwise there is one called absorb plus but it's ridiculously expensive and tastes terrible..

 

[tzvia]

I've drank the vegan Orgain before. I like it! you can get a case of $30 on luckyvitamin.com Be careful-- only the vegan Orgain is carageenean free, the dairy on has carageenan.

Ensure powder is also carageenan free, but has some artificial ingredients

Absorb Plus has high quality ingredients, and more calories than Orgain, but it's very expensive. I have also tried it, and liked it.

 

[Nadine]

@rollinstone and @tzvia...Thanks for the info! I just ordered the vegan Orgain shakes for her from Amazon. They were $35 with a $5 off coupon and free shipping since my daughter has Prime. Hoping that she likes them!