# Fake Cream-What's In It?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cream-whats-in-it/9767>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 5, 2000, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cream-whats-in-it/9767 "2000-04-05T18:54:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![egkelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/db5fbb/32.png) [@egkelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/egkelly)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cream-whats-in-it/9767/1 "2000-04-05T18:54:00Z")

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Like many people, I’m trying to watch what I eat. I tried to substitute the fake cream (coffee creamer) for the real stuff-but the fake stuff is horrible! This liquid looks like the real stuff, but when you pour it into hot coffee you get a horrible fishy odor. looking at the contents, I see it contains “edible oils”-and, I understand that some of these are derived from fish!-is this true? I know that many species of fish are only used for oil-but I didn’t think that they could (legally) be used in foods for humans! Take my advice-stick to the real cow juice-it smells a whole lot better!

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-cream-whats-in-it/9767/2 "2000-04-05T19:08:00Z")

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I’m locking this thread, as it is a duplicate. The correct thread may be found [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/007266.html) .

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