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These days, there are hundreds of businesses that produce ice cream. It might be confusing to determine which brand to purchase while browsing the freezer section of a grocery store, and that’s before we even get to the flavors. We can’t help you decide between the Rocky Road or the Mint Chocolate Chip flavors, or a traditional vanilla or chocolate, but we can point you in the direction of a few ice cream brands that use really premium ingredients. Even though ice cream isn’t always a healthy food, many people can’t live without it when consumed in moderation. Here’s how to avoid ice creams of inferior quality and only indulge in the finest varieties.
Jeni’s
In addition to some really bizarre tastes from Jeni’s, including Butterscotch Popcorn, Everything Bagel (yes, really), and the Salted Peanut Butter with Chocolate Flecks, to name a few, you’ll also discover some extremely high-quality ingredients. Consider their Honey Vanilla Bean, which combines cream, milk, cane sugar, tapioca syrup, nonfat milk, honey, fair trade vanilla essence, sea salt, and vanilla bean specks. This taste may be the most “basic” that they offer.
Van Leeuwen
According to their own brand narrative, this ice cream firm began in a yellow truck in New York City in 2008, and now you can get pints of the stuff everywhere. What makes them so successful, particularly considering that a pint costs $12 each? That’s what: premium ingredients. They start with a foundation of milk, cream, egg yolks, and cane sugar, and flavor their ice cream entirely with natural ingredients. You won’t come across a single component with a mysterious-sounding name if you browse the full list of their flavors.
Straus Family Creamery
Okay, so it’s possible that the Straus Family Creamery overstates the case when they refer to their ice cream as “Organic Super Premium Ice Cream,” but they really mean it. Take their Maple Cream flavor, for example, which contains just cream, nonfat milk, maple syrup, can sugar, maple flavor, and egg yolks. Oh, and you can add “organic” before all of them, too.
Tillamook
Tillamook has been making milk, cream, and cheese for a very long time before it started making ice cream. This is initially and foremost a dairy enterprise, then an ice cream brand. Or, rather, ice cream is only one aspect of the business’s profile, and it’s an aspect they excel in because of their wide selection of flavors and use of premium ingredients. Monster Cookie, Mountain Huckleberry, and Chocolate Mudslide are a few tastes to take into account.
Häagen-Dazs
The name of this ice cream firm may be a little difficult to spell and pronounce, but the ingredients they use in their products are not. For instance, the ingredients in a pint of the Butter Pecan Häagen-Dazs ice cream include cream, sugar, skim milk, nuts, corn syrup (which is not as harmful for you as some people believe it is—basically it’s equivalent to sugar), egg yolks, salt, coconut oil, butter, and vanilla flavor. In other words, nothing terrifying.
Alden’s Organic
Alden’s Organic ice cream, which comes in a variety of flavors and shapes, including tubs, bars, and ice cream sandwiches, is, well, organic. It is produced with premium ingredients that are both safe to eat and simple to pronounce. And don’t miss the Root Beer Float Bar.
Ben & Jerry’s
Ben & Jerry’s did not become one of the first popular artisanal ice cream businesses in the country by accident or chance; rather, they achieved popularity by producing exceptionally high-quality ice cream and wonderful innovative flavors, like their Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough flavor. Today, they still use cream, sugar, milk, and egg yolks as the main components in their ice creams and avoid using artificial colors, preservatives, and thickeners.
Salt & Straw
Salt & Straw has an upscale selection of ice cream flavors that you will like. They sell pints of ice cream in flavors including Wild-Foraged Berry Pie, Green Fennel & Maple, and Honey Lavender. with dubious choices like spinach cake with chocolate tahini fudge and arbequina olive oil, but nonetheless. The safety and natural origin of each component, including the chemical-free, plant-based colours, puts no doubt on their quality.
