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Wow! People sure have different tastes my kids think it is too sour and
always add powdeded sugar. I think it tastes best that way too.

Vox Humana wrote:

> <Alan > wrote in message
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>>On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:43:18 GMT, "Vox Humana" >
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>>>>Cool Whip is a wonderful product that comes in many flavours and can be
>>>>added to anything. It tastes just like whipped cream. My kids used to
>>>>take popcicles and dip them in Cool Whip for treats the same with

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>>>>You can add it to any recipe that calls for whipped cream (that has no
>>>>taste and lots of fat and cholesterol) it doesn't melt or fade away and
>>>>can be added to a 1 pound box of powdered sugar for a great frosting.
>>>>Matt
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>>>Cool Whip is a first cousin to non-dairy coffee creamers. This class of
>>>products contains hydrogenated tropical oils and saturated fat. If you

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>>>them, that is a personal thing. I see little to recommend them. I don't
>>>think they taste very good - certainly not like real whipped cream. Cool
>>>Whip has a strange chemical taste, probably from the artificial vanilla
>>>flavor that it contains. I don't have whipped cream very often, maybe

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>>>a year. I would rather have the real thing. You can stabilize whipped
>>>cream if you want to use it in pastries.
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>>I don't much like Cool Whip, but I think the 'chemical' taste doesn't
>>come from the artificial vanilla. Cook's Illustrated does blind
>>taste testing, and when they tasted vanilla against vanillin, not one
>>taster could tell the difference!
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>>I think other things in the mixture have to do with the weird taste.
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> You might be right. However, as I recall, the CI test concluded that you
> couldn't tell the difference when using vanillin in cooked/baked items but
> they recommended using real vanilla in things like whipped cream that aren't
> heated. One thing for sure it that there is a strange taste to Cool Whip.
> I also think it is too sweet.
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