Yeah, they just can’t leave things alone. They’re marketing to the masses and unfortunately the masses want stuff that is excessively sweet and doesn’t taste like real food.

Hey, I found a new delicious alternative for Ice Cream and it is called Coconut Bliss. It has agave in it, so it isn’t something I eat regularly, but it is nice for a special treat. It is very rich in flavor and is absolutely blissful. Agave is the only sweetener in it and agave is not very offensive to the blood sugar levels or Candida. The first ingredient is Coconut and because of this, it actually has a texture that is similar to dairy. So it also satisfies that creamy experience. You should be able to find it in your health food store.

Cynthia

The first time I ate the new and “improved” organic version I became sick to my stomach.
I called the Hain company and complained extensively as any longtime good customer would. Alas, they didn’t give a damn about me as a customer or as a loyal customer who consumed the original product at least 3 times a week. I also put in a complaint with the Whole Foods store where I buy most of my food. I asked them to take that product off the shelf. They didn’t and haven’t.

Here’s my theory on why the product was altered. Many times when I had people over for dinner I served Frozen Rice Dream for dessert. Most of those people had never tasted it before, and most of them remarked that it tasted like rice (without my telling them that it was made from rice). So my theory is that the people who took over Imagine foods added all those sweeteners into the product to once-and-for-all hide the taste of the rice. Now the predominate taste of the product has a sickly sweet flavor that predominates the product. Wanna sell more product to the destroyed american taste buds?…just add a ton of conflicting sweetners.

My second theory is more widespread. It’s the theory of “More, Better, Different”. It seems that we as a species can’t leave well enough alone. The recipe goes like this: when something REALLY works someone comes along with their own “good idea” to fix it. This goes for any product. My question is: “when is enough enough?”, or “when is enough good enough?”

That applies across the board from computers to cars, to food, etc. It seems that the human species just can’t stand it when things work. We simply gotta wreck them. Note what we are doing to the planet and our living environment.
We just gotta screw it up with our good ideas.

As a group tribe called Homo Sapien it seems we have yet to evolve ourselves into being organized around creating workability. More to the point, we seem to be organized around trashing ourselves out of existence.

As Buckminster Fuller said in his book Critical Path, “It might be that, from the point of view of evolution, the human species is a failed experiment.”

Judging by our track record, it sure looks that way.

No they didn’t use brown rice syrup. Rice dream used to be made sweet naturally by an enzymatic process of partially milled brown rice. I believe the end result is the brown rice starch is converted into rice dextrin.

Yes, I love Stonyfield products too, but only indulge once or twice a year because of the sugar. They are marketing to the masses and unfortunately the masses want to see sugar in their products. Everyone thinks that organic sugar is healthier for you, and it is true to a certain degree. It doesn’t contain pesticides and it is healthier nutritionally. However, it still does the same thing to the body in regard to Candida, the immune system and blood sugar issues like hypoglycemia or diabetes. Additionally for those who have a sugar addiction problem, sugar is sugar, it doesn’t matter if it’s organic or not. Organic will set off the sugar addiction just as much as non-organic. I don’t know how Stonyfield could claim it only has a little sugar, when that is one of the primary ingredients.

The new rice dream is healthy in that respect. It is now organic, and brown rice syrup, dextrins and agave are less destructive to Candida, blood sugar the immune system etc. than sugar. However I liked it much better before because the sweetness was derived naturally. It didn’t have any added sugars. My body didn’t find it as offensive as other natural sweeteners and I thought it tasted it much better. The new Rice Dream is very flat and lacking in flavor.