Foksola, I am not sure about rooibos tea–I have not seen any data on it.

I love Trader Joe’s! Lucky there’s one down the road a bit 🙂 Good luck with your coffee bean search next time you’re there. My MIL likes the Safeway/Woolworths brand coffee beans (Select), says they’re good, even though they’re a supermarket brand.

We have traveled from Sidney to Cooktown to Camooweal and back (two different trips)….by camper van. Hardly ever stopped at cafes for coffee..bought the instant in the market. Never saw ground beans in the supermarkets. I will have to look for those next time we are over.

I think one of the biggest problems for packaged foods in the US is the use of corn syrup solids and HFCS…it seems to be in everything! Trader Joes carries NOTHING with HFCS in it!!

I’ve also had more trouble with foods since moving to the US from Australia but I never had a problem with finding a good coffee in Melbourne. As Christine said, were you mainly stopping in roadside cafes? Where in Oz were you travelling?

Next time you travel, you could take one of those individual coffee brewing mugs and just buy the ground beans at the supermarket?

Christine, from what I understand it was the fiber content in cocoa that was the issue. So…even if a product with sugar was analyzed –doubt the sugar was the problem.

I wonder if it is the Cocoa powder that has sugar in that would be the problem?

whoops meant conquer not concur! lol

Interesting the coffee note, as i too can not tolerate instant coffee but am able to drink brewed and “real” coffee (although I am surprised that you could only get instant in Australia! you must have stopped off at a lot of roadhouses in the outback! :0) ) Us city folk wouldn’t drink the stuff! We tend to drink mainly Expressos and brewed coffee is generally made in your home) I can’t wait to start on the FODMAP diet to concur my tummy issues too…..