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Coconut Cream vs Cream of Coconut vs Coconut Milk: Full Fat, Light & Unsweetened Labels

Audio from the Clean Food Score video of the same name; the video shows the labels and scores on screen.

Coconut cream and cream of coconut are not the same thing, and grabbing the wrong can turns a curry into dessert. We read coconut milk labels line by line: full fat vs light, unsweetened, guar gum and other thickeners, cartons, coconut milk nutrition, BPA-NI cans, and the cleanest cans we've scored (as of October 2026).

Full guide and the products we checked
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Chapters
0:00 The Short Answer
0:43 Coconut Cream or Cream of Coconut?
1:37 What's in the Can
2:28 Full Fat Versus Light
3:14 Guar Gum and Other Thickeners
4:29 Unsweetened, Condensed and Cartons
5:33 Coconut Milk Nutrition
6:16 Can Linings and B P A
7:04 How to Read a Coconut Milk Label
7:34 Our Picks
8:24 Your Turn

Product scores are Clean Food Score's 0–100 label scores as shown on cleanfoodscore.com on 2026-10-18. Recipes change, so read the package you buy. We read labels; this is not medical advice.

Music
"Almost Bliss" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Friday Morning" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl), CC0.

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