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6 Ice Cream Brands That Are Mostly Air and Additives [Surprise!]
Eat This! Not That!....... ^ | August 08, 2025 | Leah Groth

Posted on 08/11/2025 11:15:08 AM PDT by Red Badger

Unless you are in denial, you probably understand that ice cream isn’t a diet food. Although it is delicious and nothing beats a cool, sweet cone of the frozen dessert on a hot summer day, it isn’t going to help you shave inches off your waistline. However, that doesn’t mean all brands are equal regarding health. Some popular brands found at your local grocery store contain artificial ingredients, flavors, and preservatives. Here are 6 ice cream brands that are mostly air and additives.

1. Edy’s

Edy’s ice cream is delicious, but many artificial colors and additives are on the ingredient list. Tara Collingwood, MS, RDN, CSSD, LD/N, ACSM-CPT, a Board Certified Sports Dietitian and co-author of the Flat Belly Cookbook for Dummies, recently told us that the flavors are commonly made with polysorbate 80, carrageenan, and high-fructose corn syrup.

2. Kemps

Kemps is popular and tastes great, but the ingredient list isn’t the best and includes additives, artificial flavoring, and high fructose corn syrup. Guar gum, mono- and diglycerides, and carrageenan are a few of the worst culprits.

3. Great Value

Great Value ice cream at Walmart will definitely save you money, and shoppers maintain it is delicious. However, you might be compromising your health. Collingwood explains that Walmart can sell it for less than most of the competition because they keep costs down with “synthetic colorings, assorted emulsifiers, and titanium dioxide for extra whiteness.”

4. Blue Bunny

Blue Bunny is readily available at most stores across the country. However, the popular ice cream uses additives, artificial flavors, and high fructose corn syrup in its pints. Certain flavors are healthier and made with higher quality ingredients compared to others, so make sure to check the label of the flavor. Vanilla, for example, is made with just milk, cream, sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla.

5. Turkey Hill

Turkey Hill is another big national brand of ice cream that offers a lot of bang for the buck in terms of taste. However, it is made with ingredients similar to Kemps and Blue Bunny: artificial food coloring, cellulose gel, cellulose gum, soybean oil, and mono- and diglycerides, just a few of the names on the ingredients list, which also includes high fructose corn syrup.

6. Blue Ribbon Classics

If you have done any research on ice cream, you probably already know that many of kinds of frozen treats you consider ice cream, actually aren’t. Collingwood points out that Blue Ribbon Classics, a popular grocery store ice cream, is marketed as “frozen dairy desserts” and is “not true ice cream.” Ingredients include dairy milk solids, palm kernel oil, high-fructose corn syrup, artificial colors(Yellow 5, Blue 1), and artificial flavors.


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: food; icecream; worst
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To: Red Badger

Breyers “Carb Smart” Rocky Road...or I make it myself.


61 posted on 08/11/2025 12:12:24 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: Red Badger

Edy’s and Turkey Hill are my favorite brands.


62 posted on 08/11/2025 12:13:06 PM PDT by peggybac (“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” - Ayn Rand)
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To: fella

Adele’s in Excelsior, Minnesota, was that way too.

Except they were (understandably) closed in the winter.


63 posted on 08/11/2025 12:23:07 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Red Badger
For those who don't want to eat vegetable-bean gum and similar strange substances ...

Note the legend "Made with Simple Natural Ingredients". Not the other legend "Made with Farm Fresh Ingredients". The first is ice cream. The second is gunk.

Read the ingredients list.

64 posted on 08/11/2025 12:28:43 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Rummyfan

Titanium dioxide is a chemically inert mineral that is VERY white. But go ahead and panic ... It’s America’s favorite pastime.


65 posted on 08/11/2025 12:30:40 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

It’s NATURAL!.............

So is Cobra Venom.....................


66 posted on 08/11/2025 12:30:43 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
Read the ingredients list.

Go ahead ... pick up the container ... turn it around ... find the Nutrition Facts label. Next to it you will find the ingredients list. READ IT. I know, it's difficult ... but it's a lot easier on some boxes than others.

You don't have to take my word for it.

67 posted on 08/11/2025 12:33:55 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

And cobra venom is both natural and organic ...

So please ...

Read the ingredients.

Knowledge is power.


68 posted on 08/11/2025 12:35:31 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

I do, I read the ingredients. I’ve noticed that they print them in super small print that is difficult to read. and one I looked at over the weekend was printed sideways and it looked like a stripe pattern ..............


69 posted on 08/11/2025 12:37:47 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I just picked up some Heath flavor Klondike bars. If this stuff is fake, I don’t wanna be real.


70 posted on 08/11/2025 12:47:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Made by Breyers, so you’re good to go!.................


71 posted on 08/11/2025 12:49:08 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

That’s how you know you’re being swindled ...


72 posted on 08/11/2025 12:54:54 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

My usual go-to ice cream is the regional store brand version of “death by chocolate”. Oh, and adding a spritz of spraybomb whipped cream doesn’t harm the experience.


73 posted on 08/11/2025 1:04:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: 9YearLurker

$6 for a half PINT
$10 for a full pint.

I think it is about $.50 a spoon full...

Her Lamb chops are $21/pound.

Eggs are $5 for a dozen


74 posted on 08/11/2025 1:11:04 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

Much better than I’d have expected!


75 posted on 08/11/2025 1:11:37 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Breyer’s Butter Pecan or their Chocolate are my favorites.


76 posted on 08/11/2025 1:51:12 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Red Badger
Try some REAL ice cream, even better, HOMEMADE!..............

Too much work for me. There are a coupe of dairy farms within a half hour of me who make and sell their own. No crap in them. Jeni's from the grocery stores is pretty clean, but pricey.

77 posted on 08/11/2025 2:01:50 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Sirius Lee

I wonder how Wawa ice cream rates. Their HQ is right near me.


78 posted on 08/11/2025 2:08:41 PM PDT by Windcatcher
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To: Red Badger

Turkey Hill is good ice cream.


79 posted on 08/11/2025 2:20:23 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Rummyfan

I liked b&j’s coffee heath bar crunch. I don’t think they make it anymore.


80 posted on 08/11/2025 2:29:17 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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