Heavy Cream Powder, still not really suitable for Ketosis
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Something that has been asked a lot: is there a powdered cream that can be used with Keto Chow? People would like it to just add water.
I explored this earlier with a different product – and I’m drawing the same conclusion on this one: not suitable (in my opinion).
The product in question is “Anthony’s Heavy Cream Powder” – it’s available on Amazon for $12.99 a lb. The Nutrition label shows 0g of carbs per 4g serving because anything under 0.5 gets rounded down to 0. I contacted the manufacturer and was able to get a more accurate number: 0.48g per 4g serving. I put that into my recipe calculator and came up with this handy comparison showing the powdered form vs what it would cost to get heavy cream by the quart from Wal-Mart:
| calories/day | form | amount | cost | carbs from cream | final net carbs |
| 1300 calories | powder | 109g | $3.12 | 13.1 | 19.4 |
| 1800 calories | powder | 176g | $5.04 | 21.1 | 27.4 |
| 2000 calories | powder | 203g | $5.81 | 24.4 | 30.7 |
| 1300 calories | liquid | 238ml | $1.42 | 6.6 | 12.9 |
| 1800 calories | liquid | 383ml | $2.28 | 10.7 | 17 |
| 2000 calories | liquid | 441ml | $2.63 | 12.3 | 18.6 |
So, if you use the powder, you are going to have a really hard time staying in ketosis unless that’s all you’re eating all day since it has 2x the net carbs as the liquid version. You’re also going to be paying a lot for the convenience, about twice as much. Don’t get me wrong: it is possible to use this for the primary calorie and fat source of Keto Chow and thereby have a powder that just needs water (and refrigeration); it’s just not very practical.
Chris Bair is a technology and computer geek. He became involved in the nutritionally complete "future foods" movement in January 2014, originally with a conventional recipe and later switching to a high fat, low carb "ketogenic" variant on October 2014. In January 2015 he created the recipe for Keto Chow and released it without restriction for anyone to use, at the same time he began mixing the recipe up for people that wanted a finished product and has seen steady growth in the business every month since.
