Does powdered milk need to be chalav yisrael?

amother

Thu, Feb 20 2014, 7:02 pm

For those who keep chalav yisrael...does powdered milk need to be chalav yisrael, or is ou-d (or similar) okay? I have read conflicting things.

If so, where does one find it?

amother

Thu, Feb 20 2014, 7:17 pm

Do you know if there is an online store I can buy it from? Google didn't reveal anything.

amother

Thu, Feb 20 2014, 7:20 pm

dh and I took on to keep c"y but not powdered milk.
most people do tho.
after a few years we found out things like most chocolate bars are made with powdered milk Wink

amother

Thu, Feb 20 2014, 8:34 pm

should have done more research before posting. found this link hope it helps anyone looking for CY powdered milk! it has a few links to online stores you can buy it. http://judaism.stackexchange.c.....sroel

amother

Thu, Feb 20 2014, 11:15 pm

Why would powdered milk be any different than any other dairy product?

thanks

Fri, Feb 21 2014, 1:47 am

Some pple who keep cholov yisroel exclude the following:
Butter,
Powder Milk,
Whey.

Today, there are so many cholov yisroel products that most pple who are makpid just keep it all. (Not me. I check ingredients.)

Raisin

Fri, Feb 21 2014, 6:13 am

I don't know about powdered milk, but butter can only be made from milk of a kosher animal/cow supposedly so it does not need to be CY. Years ago people who only drank cy milk bought regular butter but nowadays I think that is less common.

OOTBubby

Fri, Feb 21 2014, 9:41 am

While years ago it was true that butter didn't need to be cholov yisroel, it is no longer the case at least in the US as there are other things added to it now (maybe whey, I'm not sure) which do need to be cholov yisroel.

Ruchel

Fri, Feb 21 2014, 11:08 am

Rav Schlesinger wrote a whole book on the butter.

Some also keep CY except for the kids/babies/under BM.

AlwaysGrateful

Mon, Feb 24 2014, 10:02 am

We spoke to our rav before we took on chalav yisroel and were told NO chalav stam powdered milk, YES chalav stam butter.

So it depends. I had no problem buying chalav yisroel, but we buy breakstone instead.

worldpeace

Mon, Feb 24 2014, 10:05 am

Why would one buy chalav akum butter if it's just as easy to buy chalav Yisroel butter?

Ruchel

Mon, Feb 24 2014, 10:39 am

worldpeace wrote:

Why would one buy chalav akum butter if it's just as easy to buy chalav Yisroel butter?

Price, quality, availability

mille

Mon, Feb 24 2014, 4:57 pm

worldpeace wrote:

Why would one buy chalav akum butter if it's just as easy to buy chalav Yisroel butter?

chalav stam* (not chalav akum...)

greenfire

Mon, Feb 24 2014, 5:56 pm

worldpeace wrote:

Why would one buy chalav akum butter if it's just as easy to buy chalav Yisroel butter?

cause butter can only be made from cow's milk ~ MOO !!!

greenfire

Mon, Feb 24 2014, 5:57 pm

I cannot understand why someone would go through all the trouble of eating cholov yisroel & then make exceptions ...

FranticFrummie

Mon, Feb 24 2014, 6:01 pm

Most butters contain whey and some also have artificial colors that are questionable.

DH is strictly CY, but he says that if butter is 100% pure, then you can take it. Where I live, CY butter is 4x as expensive as stam. Thank goodness for Horizon Organics!

nylon

Mon, Feb 24 2014, 6:20 pm

But coloring is a question of kashrut, period, not CY or CS...

Most American butters contain "flavoring," which is lactic acid. (I have Land O'Lakes in my freezer.)