Coffee creamer, flavoured liquid

Listed nutrients, per 100 g

For each nutrient, the value this page uses is marked “used”. A row marked “second database” is another database’s figure for a matching food, kept so you can see how far databases disagree (they can differ in the samples analysed, lab methods and rounding). Its own cells are worked out from it, but none of the page’s words or scores are.

Change the amount to rescale the first column. Nutrients a database doesn't list are missing, not zero.

Hazard rows as the dataset rates them

• Cadmium · Nothing to watch: under the limit · A daily serving adds 0.086% to an average adult's cadmium intake (EFSA 2012 adult median, 1.77 µg/kg body weight/week; Canadian adults in 2007: 1.2-1.75), far from doubling it, so no cap. · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · A
• Glycidyl esters (glycidol) · Nothing to watch: rated by margin of exposure · No cap: glycidol is a genotoxic carcinogen with no safe threshold, judged by margin of exposure (EFSA: T25 10.2 mg/kg body weight/day; a margin of 25,000 or higher is low concern). One measured creamer (94.9 µg/kg) gives a serving of 1.44 µg, 0.0206 µg/kg body weight/day, a margin of about 494,981. If it were made with palm oil at EFSA's palm-oil average, a serving would carry 8.12 µg, 0.116 µg/kg body weight/day, a margin of about 87,978. That would add 39% to EFSA's highest adult average (0.3 µg/kg body weight/day) and 58% to its lowest (0.2), short of doubling. · DOI 10.3390/foods12234331 · B
• Lead · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · No cap: no lead was detected (3 samples, limit 4 ppb); at that limit a serving carries at most 0.061 µg, 0.17% of the 35 µg/day adult mean (EFSA). No safe level is set. · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · A
• 3-MCPD and its esters · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap. Derived, not measured: EFSA's palm-oil occurrence times the creamer's fat share (palm is the conservative oil; coconut oil would give 1,706 g). The tolerable daily intake for 3-MCPD and its fatty acid esters is 2 µg/kg body weight/day (EFSA 2018), 140 µg for 70 kg; about 356 g of creamer eaten alone would reach it. A serving carries 5.98 µg, 4.3% of it, and adds 12-43% to the average adult's 14-49 µg/day, already under half the limit. · DOI 10.2903/j.efsa.2016.4426 · B
• 3-MCPD and its esters · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: this is one Singapore creamer (2023) at 120.7 µg/kg, and the paper does not say whether that is per kg of creamer or of its fat, so no grams figure is given. For orientation only, if it were on the food's weight, about 1,160 g a day would reach the tolerable daily intake (140 µg for 70 kg), and a serving would carry 1.83 µg, 1.3% of it. · DOI 10.3390/foods12234331 · B
• Milk allergy · Worth knowing · Flagged for people with a cow's milk allergy, whatever the front of the pack says: Health Canada's milk page lists caseinate and its salts among the ingredient names to avoid, and lists flavoured coffee, coffee whitener and non-dairy creamer among other possible sources of milk. The Canadian rule on the wording 'non-dairy' was not found. Soy-based and oat-based creamers do not contain it. · Health Canada 2017 · A
• Nickel · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: nickel is rated against EFSA's tolerable daily intake of 13 µg/kg body weight/day (2020). The average adult already takes in 22-26% of it, under half, so a food would have to reach the limit on its own to matter. None was detected (3 samples, limit 40 ppb); at that limit a serving is at most 0.07% of it, and at least 22,750 g a day would reach it. · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · A
• Added phosphates · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: EFSA's group acceptable daily intake for phosphates (2019) is 40 mg/kg body weight/day expressed as phosphorus, 2,800 mg a day for 70 kg. It covers phosphorus from all sources, so total phosphorus is the right comparison; the added part alone could not be separated. Eaten alone, about 10,000 g of creamer a day would reach it. A 15.2 g serving carries 4.3 mg phosphorus on the USDA listing (a calculated value), 0.15% of the limit; FDA's Total Diet Study measured more in non-dairy liquid creamer (77 mg per 100 g, 11.7 mg a serving), still well under 1%. The limit does not apply to moderate to severe kidney impairment. · US food database (USDA SR Legacy) · C
• Trans fats · Not rated yet · Not rated: no measured trans-fat value for a current Canadian creamer was found. Arcand et al. 2014 (abstract only) found 66.7% of coffee whiteners in Canadian databases analysed in 2005-2011 among the categories with many products over the voluntary limits. Canada has since prohibited partially hydrogenated oils (2017 notice), so that finding is historical. A US powder figure of 5.541 g/100 g would be 0.11 g in a 2.0 g serving. · PubMed 25099549

Sources

• Health Canada, Canadian Nutrient File 2026 (14th edition)
  cnf-2026 · dataset · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
• EFSA CONTAM Panel. Risks for human health related to the presence of 3- and 2-monochloropropanediol (MCPD), and their fatty acid esters, and glycidyl fatty acid esters in food. EFSA Journal 2016;14(5):4426 · doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2016.4426
  doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2016.4426 · abstract only · abstract on a university repository page
• Shi R, Shen P, Yu W, et al. Occurrence and Dietary Exposure of 3-MCPD Esters and Glycidyl Esters in Domestically and Commercially Prepared Food in Singapore. Foods 2023 · doi:10.3390/foods12234331 · PMID 38231853
  doi:10.3390/foods12234331 · full text read · CC BY (MDPI; per PMC)
• US FDA, Total Diet Study FY2018–FY2020 Elements Report Supplement
  fda-tds-fy2018-2020 · dataset · US government work (17 USC 105), public domain
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, 2018-04
  fdc-sr-legacy-2018-04 · dataset · CC0 1.0 (public domain)
• Health Canada, Milk - A priority food allergen (page details 2017-09-05)
  hc-milk-allergen-2017 · page · Government of Canada terms (Crown copyright; not OGL)
• Arcand J, Scourboutakos MJ, Au JT, L'Abbe MR. trans Fatty acids in the Canadian food supply: an updated analysis. Am J Clin Nutr 2014 · doi:10.3945/ajcn.114.088732 · PMID 25099549
  pmid:25099549 · abstract only · licence not recorded

Body map 2026-10-25.1: each nutrient’s job comes from an agency fact sheet, linked beside it under Good for.

The plain words: “a lot” means one serving (100 g when the food has no serving size) gives at least 20% of the daily amount (the reference intake), “some” at least 10%, “a little” at least 2% (the cut-offs are ours, one set for every page: 20% and 10% are borrowed from the US labelling terms “high” and “good source” and applied to Health Canada’s daily amount, whereas Health Canada’s own shopper rule says 15%; provisional: they may change in a later method version). The daily amount is Health Canada’s Dietary Reference Intake for adults 19–30; where men and women need different amounts we use the higher one (protein: 56 g for men, 46 g for women). The percentage printed under each nutrient is the printed amount as a share of that daily amount, rounded to the nearest whole number, and the word is read from that percentage, so the amount, the percentage and the word always agree. Calcium with a measured absorption is scaled by how well it gets in compared with milk.

The scale: “Nothing to watch” means a serving a day stays under the limit at ordinary amounts; “Go easy” means a serving a day can push past the limit for adults who already take in the most, or fewer than 2 servings reach it; “Limit it” means once a week or less. The dataset’s own rating is under “How we got this”. Provisional: the scale may change in a later method version.

Measured absorption under Good for: grade-A studies in adults that tested this preparation of this food, as a share of the listed amount (the share digested, for protein), quoted once each source has passed our evidence check; animal studies and other variants stay in the table above. Provisional: this screen may change in a later method version.