I didn't think carageenan was a big deal until I started drinking tea with Aldi cream every day. I got sicker and sicker with pelvic cramps, gained 3-4 pounds a week and ran fevers. I thought I was going to die. I had a gyn exam but the problem was not solved. I finally figured out the caregeenan exacerbated the cramping after, with the help of the gyno, figuring out it was gastro symptoms and not uterine cramps. I immediately gave up carageenan. I never got diagnosed but I think the carageenan was causing chronic diverticulitis. After I gave up carageenan, I never got sick again unless I slipped and had some accidentally. It makes me SO sick.

I second Trader Joe's REGULAR cream. I believe Whole Foods also has an option but I can't remember the brand.