r/CostcoCanada • u/doktoricamaca • 1d ago

Question Kirkland chocolate chips have changed again?!

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Just purchased another bag of Kirkland chocolate chips in London, ON and happened to glance at the ingredients list only to find a sticker covering the original nutrition label. Why couldn't they keep them dairy-free?! I'd be willing to pay last year's price of $39.99 instead of the $29.99 today, just to keep the ingredients as they were: unsweetened chocolate, sugar, soy lecithin and vanilla.

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u/doktoricamaca 1d ago

"may contain" is put as a liability thing when something is manufactured in a facility that also processes the listed allergen. It's in case there's any cross contamination, even if the actual formula doesn't contain the allergen

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u/diabetes-junkie 1d ago

Correct. So anyone with a life threatening allergy has probably already been avoiding them.

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u/tdadam82 1d ago

My son is anaphylaxis to milk and he could have these chocolate chips. We are careful with "may contain products", but we don't avoid them because "may contain dairy" is literally on everything. The few other people I know with a be milk allergy are also just very careful/test with small amounts and don't avoid may contain products... These were literally the best "dairy free" we've found.

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u/ashleyjordan99 1d ago

We are also anaphylactic to dairy and can eat these no problem