This Vanilla Creamer Makes A Perfect Morning Brew With Only 5 Ingredients Inside

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No tea, no shade to coffee fans of all creeds. However you do your brew, there's probably a creamer for you. For many java heads, that daily morning cuppa joe begins with a splash of vanilla creamer. To help steer 'em straight, we embarked on a definitive taste test to separate the cream from the crop. In Tasting Table's ranking of the 9 best vanilla coffee creamers, Chobani's offering emerged as one of the best on the market. Perhaps best of all, it contains only five ingredients — milk, cream, cane sugar, vanilla extract, and natural flavors — praise which could not be said of many of its competitors.

As we mentioned in our review, we're loving Chobani's candidate for its perfect execution of a true, straightforward vanilla flavor. Quoth our taste-tester, the intense flavor totally captures what "you'd taste from pure vanilla extract (which makes sense, considering vanilla extract is an ingredient in the creamer)." Despite containing fewer ingredients than competitor products (no palm oil, carrageenan, or dipotassium phosphate here), Chobani still manages to deliver a bolder, more pronounced vanilla flavor. Indeed, the brand is known for its highly concentrated coffee creamer flavor oeuvre (we're also loving Chobani's White Chocolate Raspberry flavor). On the mouthfeel, that rich and satiny texture is thanks to the fact that Chobani is made with real cream — and, in our side-by-side vanilla creamer taste test, the difference was noticeable.

We aren't alone in our adoration, either. Target customer reviews of Chobani Vanilla Coffee Creamer rave, "Staple in the house. Simple good old vanilla and cane sugar. No artificial stuff ..." Elsewhere online, Amazon product reviews agree. "We've probably gone through 50 bottles by now, which probably says more than anything else I could write. It has a really good vanilla flavor and doesn't taste overly artificial like a lot of the popular creamers do." In a Reddit thread discussing foodies' all-time favorite coffee creamers, multiple commenters name Chobani as their choice brand, specifically praising the vanilla flavor for its versatility and wide range of uses, from making iced coffees to frothing with Nespresso pods. 

Admittedly, if we were going to dock points for anything here, it would be the price point. At a Walmart in Chicago, a 32-ounce carton of Chobani Vanilla Coffee Creamer currently costs $6.24, notably steeper than some competitor offerings. Still, this is one instance in which foodies really do get what they pay for. Skipping the processed additives and capturing true vanilla flavor is well worth the splurge. Walmart customers agree: "Definitely superior to cheaper coffee creamers [...] Although I don't like that it's pricey, it's worth spending a little more, given that it is good quality and doesn't contain unhealthy, highly processed ingredients, of which most I can't even pronounce." If it happens to fall into the cart on your next grocery run, Chobani Vanilla Coffee Creamer just might end up joining your go-to lineup of coffee essentials.