Coconut milk in BPA-free packaging?

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Anyone happen to know where in the Boston/Cambridge/Somerville area to buy coconut milk in BPA-free packaging?

I'm looking for coconut milk for cooking with. Not the milk-substitute kind they make for pouring in cereal.

Checked Whole Foods, TJ's, Harvest and they all have BPA-lined cans. Also checked my local Asian and Indian markets with the same results.

According to my research some brands that have no BPA in their packaging are:

Aroy-D
Natural Value
Native Forest

Thanks in advance if you happen to know!

Answer

The Arroyo-D brand has excellent tetra pak coconut milk and coconut cream. AFAIK tetra pak's don't use BPA. 

Most of the Asian groceries in town should carry it. I know for sure that Kam Man in Quincy has it. 

The tetra pak product has the added advantage of not having emulsifiers or other additives, tastes better and cooks better. But be aware, like fresh coconut milk/cream, it does separate, which is desirable in Thai and other SEA cooking, but might not be in your application.

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Brazilian coconut milk is distributed in glass bottles and tetra-pak style (lined) containers. The Somerville and Chelsea Market Baskets, as well as Brazilian butchers and markets like Casa de Carnes Solucao. DuCoco is the brand which is distributed in the paper containers, but also glass, and it has a greenish color. The other common brand is red and white and I can't remember the maker offhand. Brazilian brands are fairly well emulsified, although will separate with heat, dunno if additives are used or anything about the lining of the paper packaging. At MB look first with the Brazilian and Portuguese products, but occasionally they put it with the Goya coconut milk (canned) in Somerville.

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any asian market should have aroy-d brand coconut milk

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I have bought Native Forest a bunch of times at Stop and Shop...at least at the one in Dedham, it's with the "natural foods" [it is organic]. However, it's in a can and I don't recall seeing anything about it being BPA free, and you'd think they would say so if it was.

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