http://www.jewish.com/askarabbi/askarabbi/askr4178.htm

shows a rabbi stating that coconut milk is pareve.  I have heard about
certain conditions being placed on the use of milk-like ingredients when
cooking, for example when cooking a meat dish with almond milk, one should
leave almonds out on the counter to reassure your guests that the meal is
kosher.  I assume the same would apply to the use of pareve non-dairy
creamer or coconut milk.  However, I don't see how this could be a problem
in a kosher bakery...they don't usually make kosher meat items.

Of course, canned/packaged coconut milk could always be processed in such
a way as to make it kosher dairy.

Gail Lewis

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Myra Spector wrote:

> My kosher bakery informed me that coconut milk is not
> considered pareve.
> Myra
>