Well that explains some things......

[jebbypal]

I'd thought that I'd been feeling differently for a bit now. Just realized as I threw a milk carton away that Organic Valley has started adding vitamin D to their whole milk.

No horrible symptoms yet, but geeesh. Not cool. Have contacted them to find out more info. Siiigh, and I'd just started really enjoying white milk. And contemplating buying a yogurt machine so I could have yogurt without Vit D headaches. Guess I'm glad I waited on that.

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[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

Huh. It never occurred to me that vitamins could be allergens, but why the hell not? Do you have problems with sunlight, or does your body process that in a different way?

Is there some other source you can find for whole milk without additions? I just got a yogurt maker and have used it twice, and like it a lot, so if you had some decent milk, it would be nice. (Though mine says you can use soy milk, too. It just has to contain certain things. I can get the booklet and tell you, if you're interested.)

[jebbypal]

My issue with fortified milk isn't the Vitamin D itself, but rather the corn oil emulsion that is used to get the vitamin D into suspension. Way back when, I'd discovered that was what gave me all my fun migraines after home made hot cocoa. So I'd been excited when I moved over to Jersey and had easy access to Organic valley whole milk with no vitamin D. (dude, 2 years without hot cocoa was an eternity).

Same issue w/ yogurt -- 2 years ago all the companies went crazy adding vitamin D to the yogurt and I found after I stopped eating it every morning, I stopped having the very pukey feeling prior to lunch.

Sadly, I'm pretty intolerant to soy milk as well thanks to my legume allergy (though soy affects me less than most beans). I'm hoping OV will tell me that they don't plan to to add D to their shelf stable variety of milk...if so, I'll definitely be looking at the yogurt makers again. Which kind do you have? I've been slow to buy one because every version I look at on amazon has several bad reviews.

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's such a bummer that your good source has gone and screwed things up. Maybe a sad letter to the head of the company would help.

I got a Waring Professional Yogurt Maker (which is, ha ha, for household use only), and am liking it so far. I got it for $30 at a Tuesday Morning store (closeouts, but higher level than many closeout places), if there's one of those anywhere around you. It makes 32 or 48 oz at a time, depending on whether you use the 2 16 oz. containers or 6 8 oz. I have been using the room-temp milk method rather than fooling around with heating and then rapid cooling. Too damn lazy, and I haven't poisoned myself yet.