made and eaten the same evening. 9 comments: I've been searching marksdailyapple.com for an hour and CANNOT find where Philadelphia cream cheese is mentioned as nonprimal. Someone does reference 0% fat Philadelphia in a comment, but my block of this brand lists the ingredients and milk is it's first one. And, here in the states, most honey is not adulterated. What I found was there was a problem with Chinese and Indian honey being banned in Europe, but it was also banned here. Lauri - Thanks for stopping by. Philadelphia contains stabilisers - xanthan gum, carob bean gum or guar gum. These are not primal (nor, do I think they are capitalised Primal, as in Primal Blueprint), but if you're happy with those as part of your primal lifestyle, feel free to use it. Cream cheese, for me, should list its ingredients as: milk. The point about 0% fat is useful, since all the goodness in cream cheese (those vitamins) are fat soluble, meaning ... you need the fat to make them bioavailable. Philly is simply not "real food" for the simple reason of all the other ingredients it contains. I recently came across a danish cream cheese (here in Vancouver) that listed the ingredients as "cream, culture" - that is more like it! However, it is as easy as pie (pun intended) to make your own cream cheese. But some full fat, unflavoured "greek style" yoghurt, the higher the milk fat%, the better. I can buy 11%. open the