Hidden and Not-so-hidden Milk Ingredients

If you are allergic to milk, you may be consuming it in your foods without realizing it. 

If you are reading labels carefully, you might see a label that states "contains milk". Then you read the ingredients but can't figure out where the milk is in your "non-dairy" product. Well, that's because some ingredients aren't called milk, but come from milk.

Here is a list of things to look for on your food labels when you are trying to figure out if it has milk or not. The ones with a * MAY contain milk.

I am listing the obvious ones (like buttermilk) and the not so obvious ones (like casein).

Glass of Milk. From: RoshniPaulSoulSearches

Milk Ingredients List/ Foods that contain milk

• Acidophilus Milk
• Ammonium Caseinate
• Artificial Butter Flavor
• Artificial Flavoring *
• Butter
• Butter Fat
• Butter Oil
• Butter Solids
• Buttermilk
• Buttermilk powder
• Calcium caseinate
• Casein
• Caseinate, in general
• Caramel flavoring *
• Cheese, All animal based
• Condensed milk
• Cottage Cheese
• Cream
• Curds
• Custard
• Delactosed whey
• Demineralized whey
• Dry milk powder
• Dry milk solids
• Egg Nog (So Delicious Coconut Milk Nog is Dairy Free!)
• Evaporated milk
• Fat replacer *
• Flavoring
• Galactose *
• Ghee (clarified butter)
• Goat milk
• Half and Half
• High protein flour *
• High Protein foods * (for example (High energy bars)
• Hot Dogs *
• Hydrolyzed casein 
• Hydrolyzed milk protein
• Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein or HVP *
• Ice cream
• Ice milk
• Iron Caseinate
• Kefir 
• Koumiss or Kumiss
• Lactalbumin
• Lactic Acid Starter Culture *
• Lactic Yeast
• Lactitol monohydrate 
• Lactobacillus *
• Lactoferrin
• Lactoglobulin
• Lactose
• Lactulose
• Low-fat milk
• Luncheon Meat *
• Magnesium Caseinate
• Malted milk
• Margarine * (most contain whey)
• Milk
• Milk derivative
• Milk fat
• Milk powder
• Milk protein
• Milk solids 
• Natural butter flavor
• Natural Flavoring *
• Nisin preparation
• "Non-dairy" cheese * 
• "Non-Dairy" products * (may contain whey or casein)
• Nonfat milk
• Nougat
• Paneer
• Potassium caseinate
• Prebiotics
• Protein foods *
• Pudding
• Quark
• Recaldent
• Rennet Casein
• Rice Cheese *
• Sausage
• Skim milk
• Simplesse®
• Sodium caseinate
• Sour cream
• Sour Cream Solids
• Sour milk solids
• Soy Cheese *
• Sweetened condensed milk
• Sweet whey
• Whey
• Whey powder
• Whey protein concentrate
• Whey protein hydrolysate
• Whipped cream
• Whipped topping
• Whole Milk
• Yogurt
• Zinc Caseinate

Is this list a little long? Don't panic! Kids with Food Allergies has a printable card you can take with you to help you remember these. Not all milk ingredients are on the card since I am getting the list from a few sources. It will give you a good head start though.  Printable Cards! From Kids With Food Allergies You can find the printable milk allergy travel card here. Here is a larger one that you can print and put on your fridge. Click here to see it. See something that needs to be on this list? Did I miss something that contains milk? Shoot me an email and I'll add it to the list.
Reading around the web: Go Dairy Free A very helpful website with a lot of information for avoiding milk and milk derivatives. Resources for this post:  Kellymom Kids With Food Allergies Wikipedia Web MD About.com My experiences with trial and error